Saltwater Slavery
Title | Saltwater Slavery PDF eBook |
Author | Stephanie E. Smallwood |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2009-06-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780674043770 |
This bold, innovative book promises to radically alter our understanding of the Atlantic slave trade, and the depths of its horrors. Stephanie E. Smallwood offers a penetrating look at the process of enslavement from its African origins through the Middle Passage and into the American slave market. Saltwater Slavery is animated by deep research and gives us a graphic experience of the slave trade from the vantage point of the slaves themselves. The result is both a remarkable transatlantic view of the culture of enslavement, and a painful, intimate vision of the bloody, daily business of the slave trade.
How Race Survived US History
Title | How Race Survived US History PDF eBook |
Author | David R. Roediger |
Publisher | Verso Books |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2019-10-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 178873646X |
An absorbing chronicle of the role of race in US history, by the foremost historian of race and labor The Obama era produced countless articles arguing that America’s race problems were over. The election of Donald Trump has proved those hasty pronouncements wrong. Race has always played a central role in US society and culture. Surveying a period from the late seventeenth century—the era in which W.E.B. Du Bois located the emergence of “whiteness”—through the American Revolution and the Civil War to the civil rights movement and the emergence of the American empire, How Race Survived US History reveals how race did far more than persist as an exception in a progressive national history. This masterful account shows how race has remained at the heart of American life well into the twenty-first century.
Slavery, Race and American History
Title | Slavery, Race and American History PDF eBook |
Author | John David Smith |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2015-03-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317459865 |
These essays introduce the complexities of researching and analyzing race. This book focuses on problems confronted while researching, writing and interpreting race and slavery, such as conflict between ideological perspectives, and changing interpretations of the questions.
Race in the American South
Title | Race in the American South PDF eBook |
Author | David Brown |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 2007-07-12 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0748628266 |
The issue of race has indelibly shaped the history of the United States. Nowhere has the drama of race relations been more powerfully staged than in the American South. This book charts the turbulent course of southern race relations from the colonial origins of the plantation system to the maturation of slavery in the nineteenth century, through the rise of a new racial order during the Civil War and Reconstruction, to the civil rights revolution of the twentieth century.While the history of race in the southern states has been shaped by a basic struggle between black and white, the authors show how other forces such as class and gender have complicated the colour line. They distinguish clearly between ideas about race, mostly written and disseminated by intellectuals and politicians, and their reception by ordinary southerners, both black and white. As a result, readers are presented with a broad, over-arching view of race in the American South throughout its chequered history.Key Features:*racial issues are the key area of interest for those who study the American South*race is the driving engine of Southern history*unique in its focus on race*broad coverage - origins of the plantation system to the situation in the South today
Ebony and Ivy
Title | Ebony and Ivy PDF eBook |
Author | Craig Steven Wilder |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 433 |
Release | 2014-09-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1608194027 |
A leading African-American historian of race in America exposes the uncomfortable truths about race, slavery and the American academy, revealing that our leading universities, dependent on human bondage, became breeding grounds for the racist ideas that sustained it.
Slavery & Race in American Popular Culture
Title | Slavery & Race in American Popular Culture PDF eBook |
Author | William L. Van Deburg |
Publisher | Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780299096342 |
Spanning more than three centuries, from the colonial era to the present, Van Deburg's overview analyzes the works of American historians, dramatists, novelists, poets, lyricists, and filmmakers -- and exposes, through those artists' often disquieting perceptions, the cultural underpinnings of American current racial attitudes and divisions. Crucial to Van Deburg's analysis is his contrast of black and white attitudes toward the Afro-American slave experience. There has, in fact, been a persistent dichotomy between the two races' literary, historical, and theatrical representations of slavery. If white culture-makers have stressed the "unmanning" of the slaves and encouraged such steteotypes as the Noble Savage and the comic minstrel to justify the blacks' subordination, Afro-Americans have emphasized a counter self-image that celebrates the slaves' creativity, dignity, pride, and assertiveness. ISBN 0-299-09634-3 (pbk.) : $12.50.
Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics
Title | Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics PDF eBook |
Author | Robert E. May |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 309 |
Release | 2013-10-07 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0521763835 |
Robert E. May internationalizes the American Civil War and reinterprets the 1860 presidential campaign, shedding new light on the Lincoln-Douglas rivalry.