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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mitchell, Michele, 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--History--1877-1964.

African Americans.

African Americans--Politics and government.

African Americans--Race identity.

African Americans--Sexual behavior.

Sex role--United States--History.

Sex role.

Sex--Political aspects--United States--History.

Sex.

Human reproduction--Political aspects--United States--History.

Human reproduction.

African American intellectuals--History.

African American intellectuals.

African American political activists--History.

African American political activists.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (411 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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".

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Usage and Terminology; Prologue. To Better Our Condition One Way or Another: African Americans and the Concept of Racial Destiny; 1. A Great, Grand, & All Important Question: African American Emigration to Liberia; 2. The Black Man's Burden: Imperialism and Racial Manhood; 3. The Strongest, Most Intimate Hope of the Race: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Afro-American Vitality; 4. The Righteous Propagation of the Nation: Conduct, Conflict, and Sexuality; 5. Making the Home Life Measure Up: Environment, Class, and the Healthy Race Household

6. The Colored Doll Is a Live One!: Material Culture, Black Consciousness, and Cultivation of Intraracial Desire7. A Burden of Responsibility: Gender, ''Miscegenation,'' and Race Type; 8. What a Pure, Healthy, Unified Race Can Accomplish: Collective Reproduction and the Sexual Politics of Black Nationalism; Epilogue. The Crossroads of Destiny; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-372) and index.

ISBN:

9798890877147

9780807875940

0807875945

OCLC:

476237118