LEADER 03723nam 2200649 450 001 9910807279803321 005 20230803220840.0 010 $a0-300-20687-9 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300206876 035 $a(CKB)2550000001192031 035 $a(EBL)3421373 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001115653 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11962579 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001115653 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11083630 035 $a(PQKB)10488016 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3421373 035 $a(DE-B1597)486403 035 $a(OCoLC)1006314869 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300206876 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3421373 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10833588 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL572025 035 $a(OCoLC)869923120 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001192031 100 $a20140210h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnnu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aImagining Black America /$fMichael Wayne 210 1$aNew Haven, Connecticut :$cYale University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (336 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 0 $a0-300-19781-0 311 0 $a1-306-40774-5 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tA Personal Introduction --$tA Word about Race --$t1. Birth of a Race --$t2. On Immigration, Citizenship, and Being "Not-Black" --$t3. The Negro, "Incarnation of America" --$t4. Color and Class --$t5. The Civil Rights Movement --$t6. Black Power --$t7. Black Americans: A Changing Demographic --$t8. The "Truly Disadvantaged" --$t9. The "Privileged Class" --$tReimagining America --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aScientific 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. 606 $aAfrican Americans$xRace identity$xHistory 606 $aRace awareness$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aRace$xPhilosophy 607 $aUnited States$xRace relations$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xRace identity$xHistory. 615 0$aRace awareness$xHistory. 615 0$aRace$xPhilosophy. 676 $a305.896/073 686 $aSOC001000$aSOC056000$aHIS054000$2bisacsh 700 $aWayne$b Michael$f1947-$01705756 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807279803321 996 $aImagining Black America$94092715 997 $aUNINA