Allure of Blackness Among Mixed-Race Americans, 1862-1916

Informationen zum Autor Ingrid Dineen-Wimberly is a professor of history at University of LaVerne, Point Mugu. She is the coeditor of Shape Shifters: Journeys across Terrains of Race and Identity (Nebraska, 2019).   Klappentext Ingrid Dineen-Wimberly¿is a professor of history at University of LaVerne, Point Mugu. She is the coeditor of Shape Shifters: Journeys across Terrains of Race and Identity (Nebraska, 2019). ¿ Zusammenfassung Examines generations of mixed-race African Americans after the Civil War and into the Progressive Era, skilfully tracking the rise of a leadership class in Black America made up largely of individuals who had complex racial ancestries, many of whom therefore enjoyed racial options to identity as either Black or White. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations     Introduction     1. “As a Negro I Will Be Powerful”: The Leadership of P. B. S. Pinchback     2. Postbellum Strategies to Retain Power and Status: From Political Appointments to Property Ownership     3. New Challenges and Opportunities for Leadership: From Domestic Immigration to “The Consul’s Burden”     4. “Lifting as We Climb”: The Other Side of Uplift     Conclusion     Notes     Bibliography     Index

Product details

• Authors: Ingrid Dineen-Wimberly
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9781496205070
• ISBN: 978-1-4962-0507-0
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Borderlands and Transcultural; Borderlands and Transcultural Studies; Borderlands and Transcultural
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.), Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Amerikanische Geschichte, 1900 bis 1909 n. Chr., Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte