Gender And Race In Antebellum Popular Culture

Author : Sarah Nelson Roth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : African American men
ISBN : 1316008835

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Gender and Race in Antebellum Popular Culture by Sarah Nelson Roth Pdf

"In the decades leading to the Civil War, popular conceptions of African American men shifted dramatically. The savage slave featured in 1830s' novels and stories gave way by the 1850s to the less-threatening humble Black martyr. This radical reshaping of Black masculinity in American culture occurred at the same time that the reading and writing of popular narratives were emerging as largely feminine enterprises. In a society where women wielded little official power, white female authors exalted white femininity, using narrative forms such as autobiographies, novels, short stories, visual images, and plays, by stressing differences that made white women appear superior to male slaves. This book argues that white women, as creators and consumers of popular culture media, played a pivotal role in the demasculinization of Black men during the antebellum period, and consequently had a vital impact on the political landscape of antebellum and Civil War-era America through their powerful influence on popular culture"--

Author : Sarah N. Roth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107043688

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Gender and Race in Antebellum Popular Culture by Sarah N. Roth Pdf

In the decades leading to the Civil War, popular conceptions of African American men shifted dramatically. The savage slave featured in 1830s' novels and stories gave way by the 1850s to the less-threatening humble black martyr. This radical reshaping of black masculinity in American culture occurred at the same time that the reading and writing of popular narratives were emerging as largely feminine enterprises. In a society where women wielded little official power, white female authors exalted white femininity, using narrative forms such as autobiographies, novels, short stories, visual images, and plays, by stressing differences that made white women appear superior to male slaves. This book argues that white women, as creators and consumers of popular culture media, played a pivotal role in the demasculinization of black men during the antebellum period, and consequently had a vital impact on the political landscape of antebellum and Civil War-era America through their powerful influence on popular culture.

Author : Corinne T. Field
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469618159

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The Struggle for Equal Adulthood by Corinne T. Field Pdf

In the fight for equality, early feminists often cited the infantilization of women and men of color as a method used to keep them out of power. Corinne T. Field argues that attaining adulthood--and the associated political rights, economic opportunities, and sexual power that come with it--became a common goal for both white and African American feminists between the American Revolution and the Civil War. The idea that black men and all women were more like children than adult white men proved difficult to overcome, however, and continued to serve as a foundation for racial and sexual inequality for generations. In detailing the connections between the struggle for equality and concepts of adulthood, Field provides an essential historical context for understanding the dilemmas black and white women still face in America today, from "glass ceilings" and debates over welfare dependency to a culture obsessed with youth and beauty. Drawn from a fascinating past, this book tells the history of how maturity, gender, and race collided, and how those affected came together to fight against injustice.

Author : Elizabeth R. Varon
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0807846961

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We Mean to be Counted by Elizabeth R. Varon Pdf

Over the past two decades, historians have successfully disputed the notion that American women remained wholly outside the realm of politics until the early twentieth century. Still, a consensus has prevailed that, unlike their Northern counterparts, wom

Author : Shirley Samuels
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1992-12-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195362527

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The Culture of Sentiment by Shirley Samuels Pdf

Samuels's collection of critical essays gives body and scope to the subject of nineteenth-century sentimentality by situating it in terms of "women's culture" and issues of race. Presenting an interdisciplinary range of approaches that consider sentimental culture before and after the Civil War, these critical studies of American literature and culture fundamentally reorient the field. Moving beyond alignment with either pro- or anti-sentimentality camps, the collection makes visible the particular racial and gendered forms that define the aesthetics and politics of the culture of sentiment. Drawing on the fields of American cultural history, American studies, and literary criticism, the contributors include Lauren Berlant, Ann Fabian, Susan Gillman, Karen Halttunen, Carolyn L. Karcher, Joy Kasson, Amy Schrager Lang, Isabelle Lehuu, Harryette Mullen, Dana Nelson, Lora Romero, Shirley Samuels, Karen Sanchez-Eppler, Lynn Wardley, and Laura Wexler.

Author : Carol Faulkner,Alison M. Parker
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580465076

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Interconnections by Carol Faulkner,Alison M. Parker Pdf

Explores gender and race as principal bases of identity and locations of power and oppression in American history.

Author : Lori Merish
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822373315

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Archives of Labor by Lori Merish Pdf

In Archives of Labor Lori Merish establishes working-class women as significant actors within literary culture, dramatically redrawing the map of nineteenth-century US literary and cultural history. Delving into previously unexplored archives of working-class women's literature—from autobiographies, pamphlet novels, and theatrical melodrama to seduction tales and labor periodicals—Merish recovers working-class women's vital presence as writers and readers in the antebellum era. Her reading of texts by a diverse collection of factory workers, seamstresses, domestic workers, and prostitutes boldly challenges the purportedly masculine character of class dissent during this era. Whether addressing portrayals of white New England "factory girls," fictional accounts of African American domestic workers, or the first-person narratives of Mexican women working in the missions of Mexican California, Merish unsettles the traditional association of whiteness with the working class to document forms of cross-racial class identification and solidarity. In so doing, she restores the tradition of working women's class protest and dissent, shows how race and gender are central to class identity, and traces the ways working women understood themselves and were understood as workers and class subjects.

Author : Bridget T. Heneghan
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 193411099X

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Whitewashing America by Bridget T. Heneghan Pdf

A study of how material goods and antebellum consumption defined whiteness

Author : Edward L. Ayers
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393881271

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American Visions: The United States, 1800-1860 by Edward L. Ayers Pdf

A revealing history of the formative period when voices of dissent and innovation defied power and created visions of America still resonant today. With so many of our histories falling into dour critique or blatant celebration, here is a welcome departure: a book that offers hope as well as honesty about the American past. The early decades of the nineteenth century saw the expansion of slavery, Native dispossession, and wars with Canada and Mexico. Mass immigration and powerful religious movements sent tremors through American society. But even as the powerful defended the status quo, others defied it: voices from the margins moved the center; eccentric visions altered the accepted wisdom, and acts of empathy questioned self-interest. Edward L. Ayers’s rich history examines the visions that moved Frederick Douglass, Margaret Fuller, the Native American activist William Apess, and others to challenge entrenched practices and beliefs. So, Lydia Maria Child condemned the racism of her fellow northerners at great personal cost. Melville and Thoreau, Joseph Smith and Samuel Morse all charted new paths for America in the realms of art, nature, belief, and technology. It was Henry David Thoreau who, speaking of John Brown, challenged a hostile crowd "Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong?" Through decades of award-winning scholarship on the Civil War, Edward L. Ayers has himself ventured beyond the interpretative status quo to recover the range of possibilities embedded in the past as it was lived. Here he turns that distinctive historical sensibility to a period when bold visionaries and critics built vigorous traditions of dissent and innovation into the foundation of the nation. Those traditions remain alive for us today.

Author : Jonathan Daniel Wells
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 741 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317665496

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The Routledge History of Nineteenth-Century America by Jonathan Daniel Wells Pdf

The Routledge History of Nineteenth-Century America provides an important overview of the main themes within the study of the long nineteenth century. The book explores major currents of research over the past few decades to give an up-to-date synthesis of nineteenth-century history. It shows how the century defined much of our modern world, focusing on themes including: immigration, slavery and racism, women's rights, literature and culture, and urbanization. This collection reflects the state of the field and will be essential reading for all those interested in the development of the modern United States.

Author : Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820361970

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The Families’ Civil War by Holly A. Pinheiro Jr. Pdf

This book tells the stories of freeborn northern African Americans in Philadelphia struggling to maintain families while fighting against racial discrimination. Taking a long view, from 1850 to the 1920s, Holly A. Pinheiro Jr. shows how Civil War military service worsened already difficult circumstances due to its negative effects on family finances, living situations, minds, and bodies. At least seventy-nine thousand African Americans served in northern USCT regiments. Many, including most of the USCT veterans examined here, remained in the North and constituted a sizable population of racial minorities living outside the former Confederacy. In The Families’ Civil War, Holly A. Pinheiro Jr. provides a compelling account of the lives of USCT soldiers and their entire families but also argues that the Civil War was but one engagement in a longer war for racial justice. By 1863 the Civil War provided African American Philadelphians with the ability to expand the theater of war beyond their metropolitan and racially oppressive city into the South to defeat Confederates and end slavery as armed combatants. But the war at home waged by white northerners never ended. Civil War soldiers are sometimes described together as men who experienced roughly the same thing during the war. However, this book acknowledges how race and class differentiated men’s experiences too. Pinheiro examines the intersections of gender, race, class, and region to fully illuminate the experiences of northern USCT soldiers and their families.

Author : Shirley Samuels
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : African Americans in literature
ISBN : 0197723640

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The Culture of Sentiment by Shirley Samuels Pdf

Author : Benjamin Lamb-Books
Publisher : Springer
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319313467

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Angry Abolitionists and the Rhetoric of Slavery by Benjamin Lamb-Books Pdf

This book is an original application of rhetoric and moral-emotions theory to the sociology of social movements. It promotes a new interdisciplinary vision of what social movements are, why they exist, and how they succeed in attaining momentum over time. Deepening the affective dimension of cultural sociology, this work draws upon the social psychology of human emotion and interpersonal communication. Specifically, the book revolves around the topic of anger as a unique moral emotion that can be made to play crucial motivational and generative functions in protest. The chapters develop a new theory of the emotional power of protest rhetoric, including how abolitionist performances of heterodoxic racial and gender status imaginaries contributed to the escalation of the ‘sectional conflict’ over American slavery.

Author : Keri Leigh Merritt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107184244

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Masterless Men by Keri Leigh Merritt Pdf

This book examines the lives of the Antebellum South's underprivileged whites in nineteenth-century America.

Author : Jacki Hedlund Tyler
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496227645

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Leveraging an Empire by Jacki Hedlund Tyler Pdf

Leveraging an Empire examines the process of settler colonialism in the developing region of Oregon via its exclusionary laws in the years 1841 to 1859.