Investigates the history of U.S. political thought, dreams, and national identity by foregrounding the debasing role of race and racialized identities in constructions and transformations of what it has meant to be American.
Investigates the history of U.S. political thought, dreams, and national identity by foregrounding the debasing role of race and racialized identities in constructions and transformations of what it has meant to be American.
Bruce Baum is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of The Rise and Fall of the Caucasian Race: A Political History of Racial Identity. Duchess Harris is Associate Professor of American Studies at Macalester College. She is the author of Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Clinton (forthcoming). Duchess Harris is Associate Professor of American Studies at Macalester College. She is the author of Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Clinton (forthcoming).
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Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 George Washington: Porcelain, Tea, and Revolution / John Kou Wei Tchen 26 Jefferson's Legacies: Racial Intimacies and American Identity / Duchess Harris and Bruce Baum 44 Tocqueville and Beaumont, Brothers, and Others / Laura Janara 64 "The Sacred Right of Self-Preservation": Juan Nepomuceno Cortina and the Struggle for Justice in Texas / Jerry Thompson 81 "Shoot Mr. Lincoln"? / Catherine A. Holland 96 Sarah Winnemucca and the Rewriting of Nation / Cari M. Carpenter 112 The Politics of the Possible: Ida B. Wells-Barnett's Crusade for Justice / Patricia A. Schechter 128 Meat vs. Rice (and Pasta): Samuel Gompers and the Republic of White Labor / Gwendolyn Mink, Abridged by Bruce Baum 145 Theodore Roosevelt and the Divided Character of American Nationalism / Gary Gerstle 163 Margaret Sanger and the Racial Origins of the Birth Control Movement / Dorothy Roberts 196 W. E. B. Du Bois and the Race Concept / Joel Olson 214 Displacing Filipinos, Dislocating America: Carlos Bolusan's America Is in the Heart 231 Looking Through Sideny Brustein's Window: Lorraine Hansberry's New Frontier, 1959–1965 / Ben Keppel 247 James Baldwin's "Discovery of What It Means to Be an American" / Bruce Baum 263 Afterword: Racially Writing the Republic and racially Righting the Republic / George Lipsitz 281 Bibliography 301 Contributors 321 Index 323
Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 George Washington: Porcelain, Tea, and Revolution / John Kou Wei Tchen 26 Jefferson's Legacies: Racial Intimacies and American Identity / Duchess Harris and Bruce Baum 44 Tocqueville and Beaumont, Brothers, and Others / Laura Janara 64 "The Sacred Right of Self-Preservation": Juan Nepomuceno Cortina and the Struggle for Justice in Texas / Jerry Thompson 81 "Shoot Mr. Lincoln"? / Catherine A. Holland 96 Sarah Winnemucca and the Rewriting of Nation / Cari M. Carpenter 112 The Politics of the Possible: Ida B. Wells-Barnett's Crusade for Justice / Patricia A. Schechter 128 Meat vs. Rice (and Pasta): Samuel Gompers and the Republic of White Labor / Gwendolyn Mink, Abridged by Bruce Baum 145 Theodore Roosevelt and the Divided Character of American Nationalism / Gary Gerstle 163 Margaret Sanger and the Racial Origins of the Birth Control Movement / Dorothy Roberts 196 W. E. B. Du Bois and the Race Concept / Joel Olson 214 Displacing Filipinos, Dislocating America: Carlos Bolusan's America Is in the Heart 231 Looking Through Sideny Brustein's Window: Lorraine Hansberry's New Frontier, 1959–1965 / Ben Keppel 247 James Baldwin's "Discovery of What It Means to Be an American" / Bruce Baum 263 Afterword: Racially Writing the Republic and racially Righting the Republic / George Lipsitz 281 Bibliography 301 Contributors 321 Index 323
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