An Aristocracy Of Color
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Aristocrats Of Color
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Author : Willard B. Gatewood
language : en
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Release Date : 2000-05-01
Aristocrats Of Color written by Willard B. Gatewood and has been published by University of Arkansas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-05-01 with Social Science categories.
Every American city had a small, self-aware, and active black elite, who felt it was their duty to set the standard for the less fortunate members of their race and to lead their communities by example. Professor Gatewood's study examines this class of African Americans by looking at the genealogies and occupations of specific families and individuals throughout the United States and their roles in their various communities. --from publisher description.
An Aristocracy Of Color
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Author : D. Michael Bottoms
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2013-02-11
An Aristocracy Of Color written by D. Michael Bottoms and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-11 with Social Science categories.
In the South after the Civil War, the reassertion of white supremacy tended to pit white against black. In the West, by contrast, a radically different drama emerged, particularly in multiracial, multiethnic California. State elections in California to ratify Reconstruction-era amendments to the U.S. Constitution raised the question of whether extending suffrage to black Californians might also lead to the political participation of thousands of Chinese immigrants. As historian D. Michael Bottoms shows in An Aristocracy of Color, many white Californians saw in this and other Reconstruction legislation a threat to the fragile racial hierarchy they had imposed on the state’s legal system during the 1850s. But nonwhite Californians—blacks and Chinese in particular—recognized an unprecedented opportunity to reshape the state’s race relations. Drawing on court records, political debates, and eyewitness accounts, Bottoms brings to life the monumental battle that followed. Bottoms begins by analyzing white Californians’ mid-century efforts to prohibit nonwhite testimony against whites in court. Challenges to these laws by blacks and Chinese during Reconstruction followed a trajectory that would be repeated in later contests. Each minority challenged the others for higher status in court, at the polls, in education, and elsewhere, employing stereotypes and ideas of racial difference popular among whites to argue for its own rightful place in “civilized” society. Whites contributed to the melee by occasionally yielding to blacks in order to keep the Chinese and California Indians at a disadvantage. These dynamics reverberated in other state legal systems throughout the West in the mid- to late 1800s and nationwide in the twentieth century. As An Aristocracy of Color reveals, Reconstruction outside of the South briefly promised an opportunity for broader equality but in the end strengthened and preserved the racial hierarchy that favored whites.
Aristocrats Of Color
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Author : Willard B. Gatewood
language : en
Publisher:
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In the years following reconstruction, up until 1920, there developed in the United States a small yet self-aware and active aristocracy. detailed account of the most influential segment of the Afro-American community, illuminating distinctions in background, prestige, attitudes, behavior, power, and culture. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Aristocrats Of Color
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Author : Willard Badgett Gatewood (Jr.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Aristocrats Of Color written by Willard Badgett Gatewood (Jr.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with African Americans categories.
Aristocrats Of Color
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Author : Willard B. Gatewood
language : en
Publisher: William A. Thomas Braille Bookstore
Release Date : 1992-01-01
Aristocrats Of Color written by Willard B. Gatewood and has been published by William A. Thomas Braille Bookstore this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-01-01 with Social Science categories.
The Colored Aristocracy Of St Louis
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Author : Cyprian Clamorgan
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 1999-07-30
The Colored Aristocracy Of St Louis written by Cyprian Clamorgan and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-07-30 with Social Science categories.
In 1858, Cyprian Clamorgan wrote a brief but immensely readable book entitled The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis. The grandson of a white voyageur and a mulatto woman, he was himself a member of the "colored aristocracy." In a setting where the vast majority of African Americans were slaves, and where those who were free generally lived in abject poverty, Clamorgan's "aristocrats" were exceptional people. Wealthy, educated, and articulate, these men and women occupied a "middle ground." Their material advantages removed them from the mass of African Americans, but their race barred them from membership in white society. The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis is both a serious analysis of the social and legal disabilities under which African Americans of all classes labored and a settling of old scores. Somewhat malicious, Clamorgan enjoyed pointing out the foibles of his friends and enemies, but his book had a serious message as well. "He endeavored to convince white Americans that race was not an absolute, that the black community was not a monolith, that class, education, and especially wealth, should count for something." Despite its fascinating insights into antebellum St. Louis, Clamorgan's book has been virtually ignored since its initial publication. Using deeds, church records, court cases, and other primary sources, Winch reacquaints readers with this important book and establishes its place in the context of African American history. This annotated edition of The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis includes an introductory essay on African Americans in St. Louis before the Civil War, as well as an account of the lives of the author and the members of his remarkable family—a family that was truly at the heart of the city's "colored aristocracy" for four generations. A witty and perceptive commentary on race and class, The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis is a remarkable story about a largely forgotten segment of nineteenth-century society. Scholars and general readers alike will appreciate Clamorgan's insights into one of antebellum America's most important communities.
Aristocrats Of Color The Black Elite 1880 1920 P
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Author : Willard B. Gatewood
language : en
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Release Date : 1990
Aristocrats Of Color The Black Elite 1880 1920 P written by Willard B. Gatewood and has been published by University of Arkansas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with African Americans categories.
Every American city had a small, self-aware, and active black elite, who felt it was their duty to set the standard for the less fortunate members of their race and to lead their communities by example. Professor Gatewood's study examines this class of African Americans by looking at the genealogies and occupations of specific families and individuals throughout the United States and their roles in their various communities. -- from publisher description.
The Road To Disunion
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Author : William W. Freehling
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1991-12-05
The Road To Disunion written by William W. Freehling and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-12-05 with History categories.
Far from a monolithic block of diehard slave states, the South in the eight decades before the Civil War was, in William Freehling's words, "a world so lushly various as to be a storyteller's dream." It was a world where Deep South cotton planters clashed with South Carolina rice growers, where the egalitarian spirit sweeping the North seeped down through border states already uncertain about slavery, where even sections of the same state (for instance, coastal and mountain Virginia) divided bitterly on key issues. It was the world of Jefferson Davis, John C. Calhoun, Andrew Jackson, and Thomas Jefferson, and also of Gullah Jack, Nat Turner, and Frederick Douglass. Now, in the first volume of his long awaited, monumental study of the South's road to disunion, historian William Freehling offers a sweeping political and social history of the antebellum South from 1776 to 1854. All the dramatic events leading to secession are here: the Missouri Compromise, the Nullification Controversy, the Gag Rule ("the Pearl Harbor of the slavery controversy"), the Annexation of Texas, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Freehling vividly recounts each crisis, illuminating complex issues and sketching colorful portraits of major figures. Along the way, he reveals the surprising extent to which slavery influenced national politics before 1850, and he provides important reinterpretations of American republicanism, Jeffersonian states' rights, Jacksonian democracy, and the causes of the American Civil War. But for all Freehling's brilliant insight into American antebellum politics, Secessionists at Bay is at bottom the saga of the rich social tapestry of the pre-war South. He takes us to old Charleston, Natchez, and Nashville, to the big house of a typical plantation, and we feel anew the tensions between the slaveowner and his family, the poor whites and the planters, the established South and the newer South, and especially between the slave and his master, "Cuffee" and "Massa." Freehling brings the Old South back to life in all its color, cruelty, and diversity. It is a memorable portrait, certain to be a key analysis of this crucial era in American history.
The Image Of Aristocracy
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Author : David Crouch
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005-11-29
The Image Of Aristocracy written by David Crouch and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-11-29 with History categories.
David Crouch provides a broad definition of aristorcracy by examining the ways aristocrats behaved and lived between 1000 and 1300. He analyses life-style, class and luxurious living in those years. A distinctive feature of the book is that it takes a British, rather than Anglocentric, view - looking at the penetration of Welsh and Scottish society by Anglo-French ideas of aristocracy.
Aristocracy And The Modern Imagination
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Author : Charles A. Riley
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 2001
Aristocracy And The Modern Imagination written by Charles A. Riley and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Art categories.
Modernism generally signifies the efforts of late 19th century European painters, writers, musicians and philosophers who consciously broke with tradition. This is an examination of what that meant for those aristocrats who were also modernists.