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Author Jones, Jacqueline, 1948-

Title A dreadful deceit : the myth of race from the colonial era to Obama's America / Jacqueline Jones.

Publication Info. New York : Basic Books, [2013].

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 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  305.8 J718    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  305.8009 JON    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  305.8 JONES    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  305.8 JON    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  305.8 J71    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  305.8 J77D    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Faxon Branch - Non Fiction  305.8009 JONES    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  305.800973 JO    Check Shelf
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.
Race -- Philosophy.
African Americans -- Race identity -- History.
African Americans -- Biography.
United States -- Race relations -- History.
ISBN 9780465036707 hardback
0465036708 hardback
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