Righteous propagation: African Americans and the politics of racial destiny after Reconstruction
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Main Author: Mitchell, Michele (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press ©2004
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-372) and index
Prologue : to better our condition one way or another : African Americans and the concept of racial destiny -- A great, grand & all important question : African American emigration to Liberia -- The Black man's burden : imperialism and racial manhood -- The strongest, most intimate hope of the race : sexuality, reproduction, and Afro-American vitality -- The righteous propagation of the nation : conduct, conflict, and sexuality -- Making the home life measure up : environment, class, and the healthy race household -- The colored doll is a live one! : material culture, Black consciousness, and cultivation of intraracial desire -- A burden of responsibility : gender, "miscegenation," and race type -- What a pure, healthy, unified race can accomplish : collective reproduction and the sexual politics of Black nationalism -- Epilogue : the crossroads of destiny
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."
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 388 pages)
ISBN:0807829021
0807855677
0807875945
9780807829028
9780807855676
9780807875940