Black Reason, White Feeling : The Jeffersonian Enlightenment in the African American Tradition / Hannah Spahn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spahn, Hannah, 1975- author.

Series:

Jeffersonian America.

Jeffersonian America Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826--Influence.

Jefferson, Thomas.

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826--Philosophy.

African American intellectuals.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

African Americans.

Enlightenment--United States.

Enlightenment.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville, Virginia : University of Virginia Press, [2024]

Summary:

The vital influence of Black American intellectuals on the legacy of Thomas Jefferson's ideas The lofty Enlightenment principles articulated by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, so central to conceptions of the American founding, did not emerge fully formed as a coherent set of ideas in the eighteenth century.

Contents:

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I. Jefferson's Enlightenment of Feeling

1. I Feel: Therefore I Exist

2. Uncritical Reason

3. Opinion Is Power

4. Deep-Rooted Prejudices

Part II. Wheatley's Enlightenment of Principle

5. The Lessons of Reason

6. Malignant Prejudice

7. Pedagogies of Character

8. Above Jefferson's Veil

Conclusion: A Jeffersonian Double Consciousness

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Recent books in the series.

Notes:

Includes index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Spahn, Hannah Black Reason, White Feeling

ISBN:

9780813951201

OCLC:

1428903831