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Going underground : race, space, and the subterranean in the nineteenth-century United States /

"First popularized by newspaper coverage of the Underground Railroad in the 1840s, the underground serves as a metaphor for subversive activity that remains central to our political vocabulary. In Going Underground, Lara Langer Cohen excavates the long history of this now-familiar idea while se...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cohen, Lara Langer (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.
Subjects:
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Literature and society > United States > History > 19th century.
Politics and literature > United States > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Race identity.
African Americans > History > 19th century.
United States > Race relations > History > 19th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
African Americans.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
American literature.
American literature > African American authors.
Literature and society.
Politics and literature.
Race relations.
United States.
1800-1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

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