Affect and power : essays on sex, slavery, race, and religion in appreciation of Winthrop D. Jordan / edited by David J. Libby, Paul Spickard, and Susan Ditto ; introduction by Sheila L. Skemp ; foreword by Charles Joyner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Libby, David J.

Contributor:

Jordan, Winthrop D.

Libby, David J., 1969-

Spickard, Paul R., 1950-

Ditto, Susan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--United States--History.

Slavery.

Slavery--Political aspects--United States--History.

Sex role--United States--History.

Sex role.

Sex--United States--History.

Sex.

Christianity--United States.

Christianity.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

United States--Religion.

United States--Civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi for the Department of History, University of Mississippi, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1968, Winthrop D. Jordan published his groundbreaking work White Over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812 and opened up new avenues for thinking about sex, slavery, race, and religion in American culture. Over the course of a forty-year career at the University of California and the University of Mississippi, he continued to write about these issues and to train others to think in new ways about interactions of race, gender, faith, and power. Written by former students of Jordan, these essays are a tribute to the career of one of America's great thinkers and perhaps the mo

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; I. SEX; II. SLAVERY; III. RACE; IV. RELIGION; Notes; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-221) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-94080-5

9786612940804

1-60473-062-5

1-4237-3200-6

OCLC:

781367858