Antje Ulrike Mattheus

Cresheim Farm

An American History of Conquest, Privilege and Struggles for Freedom and Equality

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book is a work of political archaeology: it focuses on the people and events at a particular colonial farm in Germantown, Pennsylvania.

Produktdetails

• Sociology Re-Wired
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 153mm x 229mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 456g
• ISBN-13: 9781032330228
• ISBN-10: 1032330228
• Artikelnr.: 67513751

Autorenporträt

Antje Ulrike Mattheus grew up in post-World War II West Germany and came to the U.S. at 18 to be an organizer for the United Farmworkers Union. She has worked with a range of community, academic, direct action, and anti-violence programs to address white supremacy, race, class and gender inequalities. She innovated grassroots adult education and empowerment programs, and co-founded White People Confronting Racism, which conducts anti-racism workshops for white people since 1995. She enjoys restoring old buildings.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: Origins
Chapter 1: The Unami Lenape: Conquest, Genocide, Resistance and Survival
Chapter 2. Colonization of Germantown: The Krefelders Arrive
Chapter 3: The Mennonite Tyson Family: The Dawn of Cresheim Farm
Chapter 4: Cresheim Farm Buildings as of 1703: Imprinting the Land with
Fences and Stones
Part II: Colonization and Whiteness
Chapter 5: Mennonite Conrads Family: Outsiders Become White and
Middle-class
Chapter 6: Discontent Before the Revolution: Class and Caste
Chapter 7: Cresheim Farm Buildings as of 1770s: A White American
Institution
Chapter 8: Germantown During the Revolution: A Battle and A White House
Part III: Manifest Destiny and Class Struggle
Chapter 9: Col. Roumfort: Military, Law, and Order
Chapter 10: The Gowen Empire: Upper Class Life in the Gilded Age
Chapter 11: Franklin Gowen: An Anti-Union Activist
Chapter 12: The Gowen Housing Estate: The End of Farming
Part IV: Race, Gender, and Activism
Chapter 13: Adelaide Neall: A Suffragette in Publishing
Chapter 14: Elizabeth and Robert Yarnall: Quaker Peace Activists
Chapter 15: Slavery and the Underground Railroad in Germantown
Chapter 16: Workshop of the World: From Sparkle to Rust
Chapter 17: Black and White: Activists in Germantown
Chapter 18: The Mattheus-Kairys Family at Cresheim Farm