Open wound : the long view of race in America /

Open wound : the long view of race in America /

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In this boldly interpretive narrative, William McKee Evans tells the story of America's paradox of democracy entangled with a centuries-old system of racial oppression. This racial system of interacting practices and ideas first justified black slavery, then, after the Civil War, other forms of...

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Main Author: Evans, William McKee
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2009]
Subjects:
African Americans > History.
African Americans > Southern States > History.
African Americans > Civil rights > History.
Racism > United States > History.
United States > Race relations.
Southern States > Race relations.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Interpretive Overview
  • Prologue: Race and the Human Race
  • PART 1 The Colonial Period
  • 1. How the American Racial System Began: Atlantic Slavery Becomes Market-Driven and Color-Defined
  • 2. Anglo Americans Adopt the Atlantic Racial System
  • 3. The Construction of Planter Hegemony, 1676-1776
  • 4. The Era of the American Revolution: The Challenge to Slavery and the Compromise
  • PART 2 The Antebellum Republic
  • 5. The Old South's Triumph
  • 6. The Old South's Crisis and the Emergence of the White Solidarity Myth
  • 7. Emancipated but Black: Freedom in the Free States
  • 8. The Planter and the "Wage Slave": A Reactionary Alliance
  • 9. King Cotton's Jesters: The Minstrel Show Interprets Race for the White Working Class
  • The War of the Cabins: The Struggle for the Soul of the "Common Man"
  • PART 3 The Racial System Challenged and Revised
  • 11. The Republican Revolution and the Struggle for a "New Birth of Freedom"
  • 12. Reconstruction: The Radical Challenge, 1865-77
  • 13. Between Slavery and Freedom: The Conservative Quest for a Halfway House
  • PART 4 The Racial System in a Rising Superpower
  • 14. The Age of Segregation at Its Zenith: The Racial System in a World of Colonialism
  • 15. Radical Challenge, Liberal Reform: African Americans Gain New Allies
  • 16. The American Century, the American Dilemma
  • 17. The Black Freedom Movement
  • 18. The Racial System in the Age of Corporate Globalism, Technological Revolution, and Environmental Crisis
  • Notes
  • Index.

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