The Cause of Freedom covers the long sweep of African American history from the seventeenth century to the present. Throughout that long arc, this book traces shifting definitions of citizenship as they relate to race and highlights the deep paradox at the core of U.S. history: the interdependence of slavery and freedom. In so doing, The Cause of Freedom examines key ideas that have shaped African American history, and the ways that these ideas circulate among both well-known figures and ordinary people. It synthesizes cultural, social, political, and intellectual history in order to excavate and analyze the African American past.…mehr
The Cause of Freedom covers the long sweep of African American history from the seventeenth century to the present. Throughout that long arc, this book traces shifting definitions of citizenship as they relate to race and highlights the deep paradox at the core of U.S. history: the interdependence of slavery and freedom. In so doing, The Cause of Freedom examines key ideas that have shaped African American history, and the ways that these ideas circulate among both well-known figures and ordinary people. It synthesizes cultural, social, political, and intellectual history in order to excavate and analyze the African American past.
Jonathan Scott Holloway is president of Rutgers University. He was formerly provost at Northwestern University and Dean of Yale College. He specializes in intellectual and social history, with an emphasis on post-emancipation United States history. His books include Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory and Identity in Black America Since 1940 and Confronting the Veil: Abram Harris Jr, E. Franklin Frazier, and Ralph Bunche, 1919-1941.
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Introduction Chapter 1: Race, Slavery, and Ideology in Colonial North America Chapter 2: Resistance and African American Identity Before the Civil War Chapter 3: War, Freedom, and a Nation Reconsidered Chapter 4: Civilization, Race, and the Politics of Uplift Chapter 5: The Making of the Modern Civil Rights Movement(s) Chapter 6: The Paradoxes of Post-Civil Rights America Epilogue: Stony the Road We Trod Notes Further Reading Index
Introduction Chapter 1: Race, Slavery, and Ideology in Colonial North America Chapter 2: Resistance and African American Identity Before the Civil War Chapter 3: War, Freedom, and a Nation Reconsidered Chapter 4: Civilization, Race, and the Politics of Uplift Chapter 5: The Making of the Modern Civil Rights Movement(s) Chapter 6: The Paradoxes of Post-Civil Rights America Epilogue: Stony the Road We Trod Notes Further Reading Index
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