The Color of Race in America, 1900-1940 / Matthew Pratt Guterl.
Guterl, Matthew Pratt, author.
2009
E184.A1 G96 2001
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Title The Color of Race in America, 1900-1940 / Matthew Pratt Guterl.
Author Guterl, Matthew Pratt, author.
ISBN 9780674038059
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674038059
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]
Copyright ©2002
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (256 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/9780674038059 doi
Call Number E184.A1 G96 2001
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.8/00973
Summary With the social change brought on by the Great Migration of African Americans into the urban northeast after the Great War came the surge of a biracial sensibility that made America different from other Western nations. How white and black people thought about race and how both groups understood and attempted to define and control the demographic transformation are the subjects of this new book by a rising star in American history. An elegant account of the roiling environment that witnessed the shift from the multiplicity of white races to the arrival of biracialism, this book focuses on four representative spokesmen for the transforming age: Daniel Cohalan, the Irish-American nationalist, Tammany Hall man, and ruthless politician; Madison Grant, the patrician eugenicist and noisy white supremacist; W. E. B. Du Bois, the African-American social scientist and advocate of social justice; and Jean Toomer, the American pluralist and novelist of the interior life. Race, politics, and classification were their intense and troubling preoccupations in a world they did not create, would not accept, and tried to change.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Illustrations
Introduction
1. Salvaging a Shipwrecked World
2. Bleeding the Irish White
3. Against the White Leviathan
4. The Hypnotic Division of America
Epilogue
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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