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