Black and White Manhattan - The History of Racial Formation in New York City, 1624-1783

Klappentext Race first emerged as an important ingredient of New York City's melting pot when it was known as New Amsterdam and was a fledgling colonial outpost on the North American frontier. Thelma Wills Foote details the arrival of the first immigrants! including African slaves! and traces encounters between the town's inhabitants of African! European! and Native American descent! showing how racial domination became key to the building of the settler colony at the tip of Manhattan Island. Foote investigates everyday formations of race in slaveowing households! on the colonial city's streets! at its docks! taverns! and marketplaces! and in the adjacent farming districts. The history of New York City demonstrates that the process of racial formation and the mechanisms of racial domination were central to the northern colonial experience and to the founding of the United States. Zusammenfassung Probing the colonial history of New York City, Thelma Foote examines the broadly shared belief that black slavery and antiblack racism were marginal to the experience of northern colonies in British North America. In this study of Dutch and English New York, she demonstrates that racial domination was a key foundation of society and culture in the seaport community and examines the interrelationship of racial tensions and breakdowns in colonial governance.

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• Authors: Thelma Wills Foote, Thelma Wills (Associate Professor of Histor Foote, Foote Thelma Wills
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2003
• EAN: 9780195088090
• ISBN: 978-0-19-508809-0
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; New York, Ethnic Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, History of the Americas, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Black & Asian Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, New York (state)