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Righteous propagation : African Americans and the politics of racial destiny after Reconstruction /

Between 1877 and 1930 African American activists promoted an array of strategies for progress and power built around "racial destiny," the idea that black Americans formed a collective whose future existence would be determined by the actions of its members., Michele Mitchell examines the...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mitchell, Michele, 1965-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2004.
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  • Prologue : to better our condition one way or another : African Americans and the concept of racial destiny
  • A great, grand & all important question : African American emigration to Liberia
  • The Black man's burden : imperialism and racial manhood
  • The strongest, most intimate hope of the race : sexuality, reproduction, and Afro-American vitality
  • The righteous propagation of the nation : conduct, conflict, and sexuality
  • Making the home life measure up : environment, class, and the healthy race household
  • The colored doll is a live one! : material culture, Black consciousness, and cultivation of intraracial desire
  • A burden of responsibility : gender, "miscegenation," and race type
  • What a pure, healthy, unified race can accomplish : collective reproduction and the sexual politics of Black nationalism
  • Epilogue : the crossroads of destiny.