Righteous propagation : African Americans and the politics of racial destiny after Reconstruction / by Michele Mitchell.

  • Mitchell, Michele, 1965-
Date:
[2004]
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Description

Between 1877 and 1930 African American activists promoted an array of strategies for progress and power built around "racial destiny", the idea that black Americans formed a collective whose future existence would be determined by the actions of its members. Michele Mitchell examines the reproductive implications of "racial destiny."

Publication/Creation

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2004]

Physical description

xxi, 388 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-372) and index.

Contents

Prologue : to better our condition one way or another : African Americans and the concept of racial destiny -- A great, grand & all important question : African American emigration to Liberia -- The Black man's burden : imperialism and racial manhood -- The strongest, most intimate hope of the race : sexuality, reproduction, and Afro-American vitality -- The righteous propagation of the nation : conduct, conflict, and sexuality -- Making the home life measure up : environment, class, and the healthy race household -- The colored doll is a live one! : material culture, Black consciousness, and cultivation of intraracial desire -- A burden of responsibility : gender, "miscegenation," and race type -- What a pure, healthy, unified race can accomplish : collective reproduction and the sexual politics of Black nationalism -- Epilogue : the crossroads of destiny.

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    History of Medicine
    TPJ.W
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ISBN

  • 0807855677
  • 9780807855676