| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 388 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-372) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
Between 1877 and 1930 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., Michele Mitchell examines the reproductive implications of "racial destiny." |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
African Americans -- History -- 1877-1964.
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African Americans. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
1877-1964 |
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African Americans -- Politics and government.
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African Americans -- Race identity.
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African Americans -- Politics and government. |
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African Americans -- Sexual behavior.
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African Americans -- Race identity. |
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African Americans -- Sexual behavior. |
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Sex role -- United States -- History.
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Sex role. |
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United States. |
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Sex -- Political aspects -- United States -- History.
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Sex -- Political aspects. |
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Sex. |
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Human reproduction -- Political aspects -- United States -- History.
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Human reproduction -- Political aspects. |
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Human reproduction. |
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African American intellectuals -- History.
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African American intellectuals. |
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African American political activists -- History.
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African American political activists. |
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United States -- Race relations.
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Race relations. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Subject |
Gender roles. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Mitchell, Michele, 1965- Righteous propagation. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2004 0807829021 0807855677 (DLC) 2004007403 (OCoLC)54881760 |
| ISBN |
0807875945 (electronic book) |
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9780807875940 (electronic book) |
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9780807829028 (alkaline paper) |
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0807829021 (alkaline paper) |
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9780807855676 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0807855677 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0807829021 (alkaline paper) |
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0807855677 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
