Righteous Propagation African Americans and the Politics of Racial Destiny after Reconstruction

Name: Righteous Propagation African Americans and the Politics of Racial Destiny after Reconstruction
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ISBN: 9780807855676

ISBN-10: 0807855677

ISBN-13: 9780807855676

Edition: 2004

Authors: Michele Mitchell

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Between 1877 and 1930--years rife with tensions over citizenship, suffrage, immigration, and "the Negro problem"--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. In Righteous Propagation, Michele Mitchell examines the reproductive implications of racial destiny, demonstrating how it forcefully linked particular visions of gender, conduct, and sexuality to collective well-being. Mitchell argues that while African Americans did not agree on specific ways to bolster their collective prospects, ideas about…

Book details

List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 12/6/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.92" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Michele Mitchell is associate professor of history and Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan. She is co-editor of Dialogues of Dispersal: Gender, Sexuality, and African Diasporas.



Prologue : to better our condition one way or another : African Americans and the concept of racial destiny



A great, grand, & all important question : African American emigration to Liberia



The black man's burden : imperialism and racial manhood



The strongest, most intimate hope of the race : sexuality, reproduction, and Afro-American vitality



The righteous propagation of the nation : conduct, conflict, and sexuality



Making the home life measure up : environment, class, and the healthy race household



The colored doll is a live one! : material culture, black consciousness, and cultivation of intraracial desire



A burden of responsibility : gender, "miscegenation," and race type



What a pure, healthy, unified race can accomplish : collective reproduction and the sexual politics of black nationalism


Epilogue : the crossroads of destiny