Description |
xvii, 381 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents |
Antonia: a killing in early colonial Maryland -- Boston King: self-interested patriotism in revolutionary-era South Carolina -- Elleanor Eldridge: "complexional hindrance" in antebellum Rhode Island -- Richard W. White: "racial" politics in post-civil war Savannah -- William H. Holtzclaw: the "black man's burden" in the heart of Mississippi -- Simon P. Owens: a Detroit wildcatter at the point of production. |
Summary |
"In A Dreadful Deceit, award-winning social historian Jacqueline Jones traces the lives of six African Americans from the colonial era to the late 20th century, using their stories to illustrate the complex ways in which racial ideologies in this country have changed since the first Africans arrived on the nation's shores hundreds of years ago. The very idea of "blackness," she shows, has changed fundamentally over this period."-- Provided by publisher. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-362) and index. |
Subject |
Race awareness -- United States -- History.
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Race -- Philosophy.
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African Americans -- Race identity -- History.
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African Americans -- Biography.
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United States -- Race relations -- History.
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ISBN |
9780465036707 hardback |
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0465036708 hardback |
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