Righteous propagation : African Americans and the politics of racial destiny after Reconstruction / / by Michele Mitchell
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| Autore: |
Mitchell Michele <1965->
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| Titolo: |
Righteous propagation : African Americans and the politics of racial destiny after Reconstruction / / by Michele Mitchell
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| Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2004 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (411 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 973/.0496073 |
| Soggetto topico: | African Americans - History - 1877-1964 |
| African Americans - Politics and government | |
| African Americans - Race identity | |
| African Americans - Sexual behavior | |
| Sex role - United States - History | |
| Sex - Political aspects - United States - History | |
| Human reproduction - Political aspects - United States - History | |
| African American intellectuals - History | |
| African American political activists - History | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Race relations |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-372) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Usage and Terminology; Prologue. To Better Our Condition One Way or Another: African Americans and the Concept of Racial Destiny; 1. A Great, Grand, & All Important Question: African American Emigration to Liberia; 2. The Black Man's Burden: Imperialism and Racial Manhood; 3. The Strongest, Most Intimate Hope of the Race: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Afro-American Vitality; 4. The Righteous Propagation of the Nation: Conduct, Conflict, and Sexuality; 5. Making the Home Life Measure Up: Environment, Class, and the Healthy Race Household |
| 6. The Colored Doll Is a Live One!: Material Culture, Black Consciousness, and Cultivation of Intraracial Desire7. A Burden of Responsibility: Gender, ''Miscegenation,'' and Race Type; 8. What a Pure, Healthy, Unified Race Can Accomplish: Collective Reproduction and the Sexual Politics of Black Nationalism; Epilogue. The Crossroads of Destiny; Notes; Bibliography; Index; | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Between 1877 and 1930 African American activists promoted an array of strategies for progress and power built around "racial destiny," the idea that black Americans formed a collective whose future existence would be determined by the actions of its members. , Michele Mitchell examines the reproductive implications of "racial destiny". |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Righteous propagation |
| ISBN: | 979-88-908771-4-7 |
| 0-8078-7594-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910816280803321 |
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