Slave Breeding - Sex, Violence, and Memory in African American History

Informationen zum Autor Gregory D. Smithers teaches American history at the Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the author of Science, Sexuality, and Race in the United States and Australia, 1780s-1890s and coauthor of The Preacher and the Politician: Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama and Race in America . Klappentext An exploration of the idea of selective and forced slave breeding in the U.S. based on the collective memory and folktales of the descendants of enslaved people. Zusammenfassung Investigates how African Americans have narrated! remembered! and represented slave-breeding practices. Smithers argues that while social and economic historians have downplayed the significance of slave breeding! African Americans have refused to forget the violence and sexual coercion associated with the plantation South.

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• Authors: Gregory D Smithers, Gregory D. Smithers
• Publisher: University Press Of Florida
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.2013
• EAN: 9780813049601
• ISBN: 978-0-8130-4960-1
• No. of pages: 270
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918