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Jefferson’s Legacies: Racial Intimacies and American Identity
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Duchess Harris
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction 1
- George Washington: Porcelain, Tea, and Revolution 26
- Jefferson’s Legacies: Racial Intimacies and American Identity 44
- Tocqueville and Beaumont, Brothers and Others 64
- “The Sacred Right of Self-Preservation”: Juan Nepomuceno Cortina and the Struggle for Justice in Texas 81
- “Shoot Mr. Lincoln”? 96
- Sarah Winnemucca and the Rewriting of Nation 112
- The Politics of the Possible: Ida B. Wells-Barnett’s Crusade for Justice 128
- Meat vs. Rice (and Pasta): Samuel Gompers and the Republic of White Labor 145
- Theodore Roosevelt and the Divided Character of American Nationalism 163
- Margaret Sanger and the Racial Origins of the Birth Control Movement 196
- W. E. B. Du Bois and the Race Concept 214
- Displacing Filipinos, Dislocating America: Carlos Bulosan’s America Is in the Heart 231
- Looking through Sidney Brustein’s Window: Lorraine Hansberry’s New Frontier, 1959–1965 247
- James Baldwin’s “Discovery of What It Means to Be an American 263
- Afterword: Racially Writing the Republic and Racially Righting the Republic 281
- Bibliography 301
- Contributors 321
- Index 323
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction 1
- George Washington: Porcelain, Tea, and Revolution 26
- Jefferson’s Legacies: Racial Intimacies and American Identity 44
- Tocqueville and Beaumont, Brothers and Others 64
- “The Sacred Right of Self-Preservation”: Juan Nepomuceno Cortina and the Struggle for Justice in Texas 81
- “Shoot Mr. Lincoln”? 96
- Sarah Winnemucca and the Rewriting of Nation 112
- The Politics of the Possible: Ida B. Wells-Barnett’s Crusade for Justice 128
- Meat vs. Rice (and Pasta): Samuel Gompers and the Republic of White Labor 145
- Theodore Roosevelt and the Divided Character of American Nationalism 163
- Margaret Sanger and the Racial Origins of the Birth Control Movement 196
- W. E. B. Du Bois and the Race Concept 214
- Displacing Filipinos, Dislocating America: Carlos Bulosan’s America Is in the Heart 231
- Looking through Sidney Brustein’s Window: Lorraine Hansberry’s New Frontier, 1959–1965 247
- James Baldwin’s “Discovery of What It Means to Be an American 263
- Afterword: Racially Writing the Republic and Racially Righting the Republic 281
- Bibliography 301
- Contributors 321
- Index 323