Racially writing the republic : racists, race rebels, and transformations of American identity /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Baum, Bruce David, 1960-, Harris, Duchess
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • George Washington : porcelain, tea, and revolution / John Kuo Wei Tchen
  • Jefferson's legacies : racial intimacies and American identity / Duchess Harris and Bruce Baum
  • Tocqueville and Beaumont, brothers and others / Laura Janara
  • "The sacred right of self-preservation" : Juan Nepomuceno Cortina and the struggle for justice in Texas / Jerry Thompson
  • "Shoot Mr. Lincoln?" / Catherine A. Holland
  • Sarah Winnemucca and the rewriting of nation / Cari M. Carpenter
  • The politics of the possible : Ida B. Wells-Barnett's crusade for justice / Patricia A. Schechter
  • Meat vs. rice (and pasta) : Samuel Gompers and the republic of white labor / Gwendolyn Mink, abridged by Bruce Baum
  • Theodore Roosevelt and the divided character of American nationalism / Gary Gerstle
  • Margaret Sanger and the racial origins of the birth control movement / Dorothy Roberts
  • W. E. B. du Bois and the race concept / Joel Olson
  • Displacing Filipinos, dislocating America : Carlos Bulosan's America is in the heart / Allan Punzalan Isaac
  • Looking through Sidney Brustein's window : Lorraine Hansberry's new frontier, 1959-1965 / Ben Keppel
  • James Baldwin's "discovery of what it means to be an American" / Bruce Baum
  • Afterword : racially writing the republic and racially righting the republic / George Lipsitz.