03361nam 2200625 a 450 991078062310332120230721023919.01-282-33431-X97866123343131-4438-1176-9(CKB)2430000000015588(EBL)1114128(OCoLC)827209523(SSID)ssj0000312852(PQKBManifestationID)12083637(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000312852(PQKBWorkID)10332718(PQKB)10487555(Au-PeEL)EBL1114128(CaPaEBR)ebr10655276(CaONFJC)MIL233431(OCoLC)239844208(FINmELB)ELB144428(MiAaPQ)EBC1114128(EXLCZ)99243000000001558820081216d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrVoices from within the veil[electronic resource] African Americans and the experience of democracy /edited by William H. Alexander, Cassandra L. Newby-Alexander, and Charles H. FordNewcastle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars Pub.20081 online resource (390 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-84718-625-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; POST- AND NEO-COLONIAL POCAHONTAS; VOICING VIRGINIA'S "NATURALS"? ALTERITY AND THE OLD WORLD RECEPTION OF MALICK'S THE NEW WORLD; JAMESTOWN SHUFFLE; CHAPTER TWO; 'THEIR HOPED FOR LIBERTY'; "RUNNING SERVANTS AND ALL OTHERS"; THE STRANGE CASE OF SHERIDAN FORD AND CLARISSA DAVIS; THINKING MEN AND WOMEN, WHO DESIRETO IMPROVE OUR CONDITION; 40 ACRES AND A MULE; CHAPTER THREE; THE RIGHT TO ONE'S RELATIVES; THE LANGSTON-QUARLES FAMILY; ADVANTAGE, AGENCY, AND UNREST; "THE KU KLUX KLAN ARE STILL SCRAPPING HERE"CHAPTER FOUR"THEY JUST GUNNED HIM DOWN UHGAIN"; JOSEPHINE ST. PIERRE RUFFIN AND MARY CHURCH TERRELL; CHAPTER FIVE; THE ECUMENICAL MOMENT; "SIT DOWN CHILDREN, SIT DOWN"; EPILOGUE; MIGRATION MATTERS, EVEN 400 YEARS LATER; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX""And then--the Veil. It drops as drops the night on southern seas--vast, sudden, unanswering. There is Hate behind it, and Cruelty and Tears. As one peers through its intricate, unfathomable pattern of ancient, old, old design, one sees blood and guilt and misunderstanding. And yet it hangs there, this Veil, between Then and Now, between Pale and Colored and Black and White -- between You and Me."" W.E.B. DuBois, Darkwater: Voices from within the Veil, 1920 ""As the promoters of Jamestown...African AmericansHistoryCongressesAfrican AmericansRace identityCongressesAfrican AmericansHistoryAfrican AmericansRace identity323.1196073Alexander William H(William Henry),1942-1564304Newby-Alexander Cassandra1957-1564305Ford Charles Howard1964-531024MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910780623103321Voices from within the veil3833298UNINA