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A dreadful deceit : the myth of race from the colonial era to Obama's America Cover Image Book

A dreadful deceit : the myth of race from the colonial era to Obama's America / Jacqueline Jones.

Jones, Jacqueline, 1948- (Author).

Summary:

"In A Dreadful Deceit, award-winning social historian Jacqueline Jones traces the lives of six African Americans from the colonial era to the late 20th century, using their stories to illustrate the complex ways in which racial ideologies in this country have changed since the first Africans arrived on the nation's shores hundreds of years ago. The very idea of "blackness," she shows, has changed fundamentally over this period."--Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0465036708
  • ISBN: 9780465036707
  • Physical Description: xvii, 381 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Basic Books, [2013]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
1 Antonio: A Balling in Early Colonial Maryland 1 -- 2 Boston King: Self-interested Patriotism in Revolutionary-Era South Carolina 47 -- 3 Elleanor Eldridge: "Complexional Hindrance" in Antebellum Rhode Island 97 -- 4 Richard W. White: "Racial" Politics in Post-Civil War Savannah 145 -- 5 William H. Holtzclaw: The "Black Man's Burden" in the Heart of Mississippi 191 -- 6 Simon P. Owens: A Detroit Wildcatter at the Point of Production 239.

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Subject: African Americans > Biography.
African Americans > Race identity > History.
Race awareness > United States > History.
Race > Philosophy.
United States > Race relations > History.
Genre: Biographies.

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Leath Memorial Library 305.800973 J (Text) 58198000705080 Adult Nonfiction Available -