Joan L Bryant

Reluctant Race Men

Black Challenges to the Practice of Race in Nineteenth-Century America

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Produktbeschreibung

Reluctant Race Men traces a history of ethical, philosophical, political, religious, and scientific challenges that Black American reformers lodged against configurations of race across the long nineteenth century. It reconstructs a largely ignored reform tradition showing race as diverse practices that configure human difference, sameness, hierarchy, and consciousness.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 163mm x 53mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780195312973
• ISBN-10: 019531297X
• Artikelnr.: 69729162

Autorenporträt

Joan L. Bryant is Associate Professor of African American Studies at Syracuse University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Introduction
* Chapter 1: "Not a Difference of Species": Nationality and the
Question of Representation
* Chapter 2: "That Odious Distinction": Moral Reform and the Language
of Obligations
* Chapter 3: "One Common Family": Equality and the Logic of Authority
* Chapter 4: "Humanology": Difference and the Science of Humanity
* Chapter 5: "One Color Now": Freedom and the Ethics of Association
* Chapter 6: "Race-ship": Citizenship and the Imperatives of Progress
* Chapter 7: "The Whole Question of Race": Jim Crow and the Problem of
Consciousness
* Conclusion: "Along the Color Line"
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index