LEADER 05256nam 22007452a 450 001 9910495864703321 005 20220204021309.0 010 $a0-520-92547-5 010 $a0-585-04774-X 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520925472 035 $a(CKB)111000211187752 035 $a(MH)007545395-9 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000126331 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12027144 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000126331 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10046957 035 $a(PQKB)11180182 035 $a(DE-B1597)647687 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520925472 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111000211187752 100 $a19970409d1997 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe comparative imagination $eon the history of racism, nationalism, and social movements /$fGeorge M. Fredrickson 210 $aBerkeley, Calif. $cUniversity of California Press$d1997 215 $a1 online resource (241 pages) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-520-22484-1 311 0 $a0-520-20996-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe status of comparative history (1980) -- The frontier in South African and American history -- From exceptionalism to variability: recent developments in cross-national comparative history -- Planters, junkers, and Pomeschiki -- Understanding racism: reflections of a comparative historian -- Race and empire in liberal thought: the legacy of tocqueville -- Black-white relations since emancipation: the search for a comparative perspective -- Reform and revolution in American and South African freedom struggles -- Prophets of black liberation -- Nonviolent resistance to white supremacy: the american civil rights movement and the South African defiance campaigns -- From black power to black consciousness. 330 $aIn this collection of essays, an eminent American historian of race relations discusses issues central to our understanding of the history of racism, the role of racism, and the possibilites for justice in contemporary society. George M. Fredrickson provides an eloquent and vigorous examination of race relations in the United States and South Africa and at the same time illuminates the emerging field of comparative history-history that is explicitly cross-cultural in its comparisons of nations, eras, or social structures. Taken together, these thought-provoking, accessible essays-several never before published-bring new precision and depth to our understanding of racism and justice, both historically and for society today.The first group of essays in The Comparative Imagination summarizes and evaluates the cross-national comparative history written in the past fifty years. These essays pay particular attention to comparative work on slavery and race relations, frontiers, nation-building and the growth of modern welfare states, and class and gender relations. The second group of essays represents some of Fredrickson's own explorations into the cross-cultural study of race and racism. Included are new essays covering such topics as the theoretical and cross-cultural meaning of racism, the problem of race in liberal thought, and the complex relationship between racism and state-based nationalism. The third group contains Fredrickson's recent work on anti-racist and black liberation movements in the United States and South Africa, especially in the period since World War II.In addition, Fredrickson's provocative introduction breaks significant new intellectual ground, outlining a justification for the methods of comparative history in light of such contemporary intellectual trends as the revival of narrative history and the predominance of postmodern thought. 606 $aRacism$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aRacism$zSouth Africa$xHistory 606 $aBlack nationalism$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aBlack nationalism$zSouth Africa$xHistory 606 $aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$xHistory 606 $aBlack people$xCivil rights$zSouth Africa$xHistory 606 $aGender & Ethnic Studies$2HILCC 606 $aSocial Sciences$2HILCC 606 $aEthnic & Race Studies$2HILCC 607 $aUnited States$xRace relations 607 $aSouth Africa$xRace relations 608 $aHistory.$2fast 615 0$aRacism$xHistory. 615 0$aRacism$xHistory. 615 0$aBlack nationalism$xHistory. 615 0$aBlack nationalism$xHistory. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$xHistory. 615 0$aBlack people$xCivil rights$xHistory. 615 7$aGender & Ethnic Studies 615 7$aSocial Sciences 615 7$aEthnic & Race Studies 676 $a305.8/00973 700 $aFredrickson$b George M.$f1934-2008.$0176640 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910495864703321 996 $aThe comparative imagination$92585728 997 $aUNINA 999 $aThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress