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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Jacqueline, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race awareness--United States--History.

Race awareness.

Race--Philosophy.

Race.

African Americans--Race identity--History.

African Americans.

African Americans--Biography.

African Americans--Race identity.

History.

United States--Race relations--History.

United States.

Race relations.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 381 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Basic Books, [2013].

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780465036707

0465036708

OCLC:

841892956