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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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Autor principal: Cohen, Lara Langer (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A Basement Shut Off and Forgotten during the Nineteenth Century
  • The "Blackness of Darkness" in Mammoth Cave
  • Early Black Radical Undergrounds
  • The Underground Railroad's Undergrounds
  • The Depths of Astonishment: City Mysteries and Subterranean Unknowability
  • "To drop beneath the floors of the outer world": Paschal Beverly Randolph's Occult Undergrounds
  • Subterranean Fire: Anarchist Visions of the Underground
  • Staying Underground.