Spanning the eight decades between the American Revolution and the Civil War, The Roots of African-American Identity focuses on the lives of African Americans in the nominally free northern and western states. Examining race and the construction of a politicized racial identity, this book explores how a group of marginalized people crafted a uniquely New World ethnic identity that informed popular African-American historical consciousness. Elizabeth Rauh Bethel examines the way in which that consciousness fueled colletive efforts to claim and live a promised but undelivered democratic freedom, helping readers to understand how African Americans reformulated and perceived their collective past. Bethel also reveals how this vision of freedom and historical consciousness shaped African-American participation in the Reconstruction, formed the spiritual and ideological foundation for the modern Pan-African movement, and provided the historical legacy for the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
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In this exquisite investigation of continuity and discontinuity in the past as experienced and remembered, Bethel (sociology, Lander Univ., South Carolina) explores how blacks in the North from 1775 to 1860 reformulated their collective past into a politicized racial identity that informed a moral community of collective action. Bethel's evocative reading of the times and political possibilities and realities as blacks crafted a group identity to mobilize themselves and others offers a suggestive complement to historian James O. Horton's Free People of Color: Inside the African American Community (LJ 5/1/93) and his new In Hope of Liberty: Culture, Community, and Protest among Northern Free Blacks, 1700-1860 (Oxford Univ., 1997). Highly recommended for collections on the pre-Civil War United States or African Americans.?Thomas Davis, Arizona State Univ., Tempe
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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“Bethel provides us with a very insightful study of the black experience in America.” —The Washington Times
“Highly recommended for collections on the pre-Civil War United States or African Americans.” —Library Journal
“Highly recommended for collections on the pre-Civil War United States or African Americans.” —Library Journal
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WILLIAM COOPER NELL AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES had fashioned Crispus Attucks as a martyred hero in order to symbolize historical continuity in the African-American struggle for personal liberty in the United States. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
popular historical consciousness, cultural reunification, unconditional inclusion, unconditional citizenship, begging system, race unity, emigration program, generational memory, spiritual autobiographers, freedom celebrations, abolitionist press, colonization society, sheep pasture, lost homeland, cultural unification Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
African Americans, New York, Sierra Leone, New England, American Colonization Society, Bethel Church, Convention Movement, Paul Cuffe, Richard Allen, Prince Hall, Nova Scotians, Jupiter Hammon, Cato Howe, Plato Turner, Quomony Quash, William Cooper Nell, Absalom Jones, David Walker, Samuel Cornish, Revolutionary Era, William Wells Brown, Cape Mesurado, Crispus Attucks, African Church, John Russwurm New!
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WILLIAM COOPER NELL AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES had fashioned Crispus Attucks as a martyred hero in order to symbolize historical continuity in the African-American struggle for personal liberty in the United States. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
popular historical consciousness, cultural reunification, unconditional inclusion, unconditional citizenship, begging system, race unity, emigration program, generational memory, spiritual autobiographers, freedom celebrations, abolitionist press, colonization society, sheep pasture, lost homeland, cultural unification Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
African Americans, New York, Sierra Leone, New England, American Colonization Society, Bethel Church, Convention Movement, Paul Cuffe, Richard Allen, Prince Hall, Nova Scotians, Jupiter Hammon, Cato Howe, Plato Turner, Quomony Quash, William Cooper Nell, Absalom Jones, David Walker, Samuel Cornish, Revolutionary Era, William Wells Brown, Cape Mesurado, Crispus Attucks, African Church, John Russwurm New!
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