Mitch Kachun

First Martyr of Liberty

Crispus Attucks in American Memory

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Produktbeschreibung

First Martyr of Liberty explores how Crispus Attucks's death in the 1770 Boston Massacre led to his achieving mythic significance in the role of African Americans in the mainstream American historical narrative from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780199731619
• ISBN-10: 0199731616
• Artikelnr.: 47866452

Autorenporträt

Mitch Kachun is Professor of History at Western Michigan University. He is the author of Festivals of Freedom: Memory and Meaning in African American Emancipation Celebrations, 1808-1915 and co-editor of The Curse of Caste; or the Slave Bride: A Rediscovered African American Novel by Julia C. Collins.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Introduction
* Chapter 1: Who Was This Man?
* Chapter 2: The Dustbin of History: Crispus Attucks and American
Amnesia, 1770s-1840s
* Chapter 3: First Martyr of Liberty: Crispus Attucks and the Struggle
for Citizenship in the Civil War Era
* Chapter 4: Crispus Attucks Meets Jim Crow: The Segregation of
American Memory, 1870s-1910s
* Chapter 5: Crispus Attucks Meets the New Negro: Black History and
Black Heroes between the World Wars
* Chapter 6: Crispus Attucks Meets Dorie Miller: Black Patriotism and
Activism in the World War II Era
* Chapter 7: Crispus Attucks and the Black Freedom Struggle,
1950s-1970s
* Chapter 8: Crispus Attucks from the Bicentennial to the Culture Wars,
1970s-1990s
* Chapter 9: Crispus Attucks in Twenty-First Century America
* Conclusion
* Notes
* Index