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In defense of Uncle Tom : why blacks must police racial loyalty / Brando Simeo Starkey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Starkey, Brando Simeo, 1982- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Race discrimination--Law and legislation--United States--History.
- Race discrimination.
- Race discrimination--Law and legislation.
- Civil rights movements.
- History.
- African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc.
- United States.
- African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc--History.
- African Americans.
- Civil rights movements--United States--History.
- Slavery--United States.
- Slavery.
- Uncle Tom (Fictitious character).
- Uncle Tom.
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896. Uncle Tom's cabin.
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 360 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- 'Uncle Tom' is the most piercing epithet blacks can hurl at one another. It marks targets as race traitors, and that painful stain is often permanent. Much more than a slur, Uncle Tom is a vital component of a system of social norms in the black community that deters treachery. In this book, Brando Simeo Starkey provocatively argues that blacks must police racial loyalty and that those successfully prosecuted must be punished with the label Uncle Tom. This book shadows Uncle Tom throughout history to understand how these norms were constructed, disseminated, applied, and enforced. Why were Martin Luther King, Jr, Marcus Garvey, Muhammad Ali, Jackie Robinson, Thurgood Marshall and others accused of racial betrayal? In Defense of Uncle Tom answers this and other questions and insists that Uncle Tom is too valuable to discard. Because it deters treachery, this epithet helps build black solidarity, a golden tool in promoting racial progress.
- Contents:
- Solidarity, social norms and Uncle Tom
- Uncle Tom : 1865-1959
- The unwitting pioneers
- Uncle Tom : 1960-1975
- No man was safe
- Uncle Tom today : 1976-present
- So what about Clarence?
- The curious case of Uncle Tom
- What now, Uncle Tom?.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781107707160
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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