Racially writing the republic
Subtitle: racists, race rebels, and transformations of American identity
By: edited by Bruce Baum and Duchess Harris.
Contributors: Baum, Bruce David, 1960-; Harris, Duchess.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780822344353; 9780822344476
Subjects: Racism -- United States -- History; Ethnicity -- United States -- History; Civil rights -- United States; United States -- Race relations -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: George Washington : porcelain, tea, and revolution / John Kuo Wei Tchen; title: Jefferson's legacies : racial intimacies and American identity / Duchess Harris and Bruce Baum; title: Tocqueville and Beaumont, brothers and others / Laura Janara; title: "The sacred right of self-preservation" : Juan Nepomuceno Cortina and the struggle for justice in Texas / Jerry Thompson; title: "Shoot Mr. Lincoln?" / Catherine A. Holland; title: Sarah Winnemucca and the rewriting of nation / Cari M. Carpenter; title: The politics of the possible : Ida B. Wells-Barnett's crusade for justice / Patricia A. Schechter; title: Meat vs. rice (and pasta) : Samuel Gompers and the republic of white labor / Gwendolyn Mink, abridged by Bruce Baum; title: Theodore Roosevelt and the divided character of American nationalism / Gary Gerstle; title: Margaret Sanger and the racial origins of the birth control movement / Dorothy Roberts; title: W. E. B. du Bois and the race concept / Joel Olson; title: Displacing Filipinos, dislocating America : Carlos Bulosan's America is in the heart / Allan Punzalan Isaac; title: Looking through Sidney Brustein's window : Lorraine Hansberry's new frontier, 1959/1965 / Ben Keppel; title: James Baldwin's "discovery of what it means to be an American" / Bruce Baum; title: Afterword : racially writing the republic and racially righting the republic / George Lipsitz.