Reluctant race men : Black challenges to the practice of race in nineteenth-century America / Joan L. Bryant.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bryant, Joan L., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race awareness--United States--History--19th century.

Race awareness.

Ethnic attitudes--United States--History--19th century.

Ethnic attitudes.

African Americans--History--19th century.

African Americans.

United States--Race relations--History--19th century.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (472 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2024.

Summary:

'Reluctant Race Men' traces a history of ethical, philosophical, political, religious, and scientific challenges that Black American reformers lodged against configurations of race across the long nineteenth century. It reconstructs a largely ignored reform tradition showing race as diverse practices that configure human difference, sameness, hierarchy, and consciousness.

Contents:

Introduction

1. "Not a Difference of Species": Nationality and the Question of Representation

2. "That Odious Distinction": Moral Reform and the Language of Obligations

3. "One Common Family": Equality and the Logic of Authority

4. "Humanology": Difference and the Science of Humanity

5. "One Color Now": Freedom and the Ethics of Association

6. "Race-ship": Citizenship and Imperatives of Progress

7. "The Whole Question of Race": Jim Crow and the Problem of Consciousness

Conclusion: "Along the Color Line".

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2024.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 4, 2024).

Other Format:

Print version: Bryant, Joan L. Reluctant race men

ISBN:

0-19-009131-2

0-19-009130-4

OCLC:

1416701686