Cross-Racial Class Protest in Antebellum American Literature /

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"Historians have long claimed that the antebellum white working class viewed blacks, both free and slave, not as allies but enemies. While it is true that racial and ethnic strife among northern workers prevented an effective labor movement from materializing in America prior to the Civil War,...

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Main Author: Helwig, Timothy (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2020]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Universidad Sergio Arboleda
Soziale Klasse > Motiv
Schwarze > Motiv
Schwarze
Literatur
Ethnische Beziehungen > Motiv
Arbeiterliteratur
Arbeiter > Motiv
Working class writings, American.
Working class in literature.
Social classes in literature.
Race relations in literature.
American literature.
African Americans in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Écrits d'ouvriers americains > Histoire et critique.
Noirs americains dans la litterature.
Relations raciales dans la litterature.
Classes sociales dans la litterature.
Travailleurs dans la litterature.
Litterature americaine > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Working class writings, American > History and criticism.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Black and White Artisan Heroes
  • The Class Accents of Anti-Slavery Reform
  • The Cross-Racial Appeal of Nativism
  • Class-Accented Sensationalism in the Black and Popular Presses
  • Coda.

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