03723nam 2200649 450 991080727980332120230803220840.00-300-20687-910.12987/9780300206876(CKB)2550000001192031(EBL)3421373(SSID)ssj0001115653(PQKBManifestationID)11962579(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001115653(PQKBWorkID)11083630(PQKB)10488016(MiAaPQ)EBC3421373(DE-B1597)486403(OCoLC)1006314869(DE-B1597)9780300206876(Au-PeEL)EBL3421373(CaPaEBR)ebr10833588(CaONFJC)MIL572025(OCoLC)869923120(EXLCZ)99255000000119203120140210h20142014 uy 0engurnnu---|u||utxtccrImagining Black America /Michael WayneNew Haven, Connecticut :Yale University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (336 p.)Includes index.0-300-19781-0 1-306-40774-5 Front matter --Contents --A Personal Introduction --A Word about Race --1. Birth of a Race --2. On Immigration, Citizenship, and Being "Not-Black" --3. The Negro, "Incarnation of America" --4. Color and Class --5. The Civil Rights Movement --6. Black Power --7. Black Americans: A Changing Demographic --8. The "Truly Disadvantaged" --9. The "Privileged Class" --Reimagining America --Acknowledgments --IndexScientific research has now established that race should be understood as a social construct, not a true biological division of humanity. In Imagining Black America, Michael Wayne explores the construction and reconstruction of black America from the arrival of the first Africans in Jamestown in 1619 to Barack Obama's reelection. Races have to be imagined into existence and constantly reimagined as circumstances change, Wayne argues, and as a consequence the boundaries of black America have historically been contested terrain. He discusses the emergence in the nineteenth century-and the erosion, during the past two decades-of the notorious "one-drop rule." He shows how significant periods of social transformation-emancipation, the Great Migration, the rise of the urban ghetto, and the Civil Rights Movement-raised major questions for black Americans about the defining characteristics of their racial community. And he explores how factors such as class, age, and gender have influenced perceptions of what it means to be black. Wayne also considers how slavery and its legacy have defined freedom in the United States. Black Americans, he argues, because of their deep commitment to the promise of freedom and the ideals articulated by the Founding Fathers, became and remain quintessential Americans-the "incarnation of America," in the words of the civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph.African AmericansRace identityHistoryRace awarenessUnited StatesHistoryRacePhilosophyUnited StatesRace relationsHistoryAfrican AmericansRace identityHistory.Race awarenessHistory.RacePhilosophy.305.896/073SOC001000SOC056000HIS054000bisacshWayne Michael1947-1705756MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807279803321Imagining Black America4092715UNINA