Daniel B. Lee
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- April 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780195149180
- eISBN:
- 9780199835386
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195149181.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
During the late nineteenth century, White Americans developed an enduring image of themselves as a superior race with a manifest destiny. They did this by drawing distinctions and observing ...
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During the late nineteenth century, White Americans developed an enduring image of themselves as a superior race with a manifest destiny. They did this by drawing distinctions and observing differences between themselves and other groups of people. With their political and economic power, White Americans had the means to effectively communicate about themselves as a race. In print, delivered to the home, read by the whole family, the racial and religious discourse disseminated by family house magazines and other popular publications helped to produce and replicate the self-referential communication of White Americans.Less
During the late nineteenth century, White Americans developed an enduring image of themselves as a superior race with a manifest destiny. They did this by drawing distinctions and observing differences between themselves and other groups of people. With their political and economic power, White Americans had the means to effectively communicate about themselves as a race. In print, delivered to the home, read by the whole family, the racial and religious discourse disseminated by family house magazines and other popular publications helped to produce and replicate the self-referential communication of White Americans.
Christopher D. DeSante and Candis Watts Smith
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780226643595
- eISBN:
- 9780226643762
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226643762.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
Racial Stasis reveals that rather than the expected upward trend of two steps forward one step back in terms of racial attitudes in America, we witness stagnation. Even though we have seen ...
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Racial Stasis reveals that rather than the expected upward trend of two steps forward one step back in terms of racial attitudes in America, we witness stagnation. Even though we have seen significant changes in what most Americans clearly understand as racist attitudes, we have not seen the same changes on more symbolic matters. Not only does this book provide evidence that racial progress has flatlined, we also offer several explanations for why. There is probably a plethora of reasons why we see the trend illustrated in the figure above, but a large piece of the puzzle can be explained by the central claim of this book: younger Whites, namely members of the Millennial Generation, are not doing the work that young people in the past have done to make significant and positive changes in aggregate racial attitudes or policies that aim to ameliorate racial disparities. Instead, there are a series of countervailing forces that prevent the positive aspects that characterize White Millennials (e.g. values of egalitarianism and diversity; a recognition of white privilege) from coming to fruition. We focus on young people, and Millennials in particular.Less
Racial Stasis reveals that rather than the expected upward trend of two steps forward one step back in terms of racial attitudes in America, we witness stagnation. Even though we have seen significant changes in what most Americans clearly understand as racist attitudes, we have not seen the same changes on more symbolic matters. Not only does this book provide evidence that racial progress has flatlined, we also offer several explanations for why. There is probably a plethora of reasons why we see the trend illustrated in the figure above, but a large piece of the puzzle can be explained by the central claim of this book: younger Whites, namely members of the Millennial Generation, are not doing the work that young people in the past have done to make significant and positive changes in aggregate racial attitudes or policies that aim to ameliorate racial disparities. Instead, there are a series of countervailing forces that prevent the positive aspects that characterize White Millennials (e.g. values of egalitarianism and diversity; a recognition of white privilege) from coming to fruition. We focus on young people, and Millennials in particular.
Lawrence Schenbeck
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781617032295
- eISBN:
- 9781617032301
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781617032295.003.0002
- Subject:
- Music, History, American
This chapter explores the rise of the Negro spirituals and the career and the racial-uplift coding of James Monroe Trotter’s book Music and Some Highly Musical People (1878). White Americans first ...
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This chapter explores the rise of the Negro spirituals and the career and the racial-uplift coding of James Monroe Trotter’s book Music and Some Highly Musical People (1878). White Americans first encountered the African American spirituality through music that expressed African American sorrow over their predicament of being slaves. Trotter’s book gave the first comprehensive history of black music in America, focusing on several musicians such as the Georgia Minstrels, Justin Holland, and the Luca Family.Less
This chapter explores the rise of the Negro spirituals and the career and the racial-uplift coding of James Monroe Trotter’s book Music and Some Highly Musical People (1878). White Americans first encountered the African American spirituality through music that expressed African American sorrow over their predicament of being slaves. Trotter’s book gave the first comprehensive history of black music in America, focusing on several musicians such as the Georgia Minstrels, Justin Holland, and the Luca Family.
N. D. B. Connolly
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780226115146
- eISBN:
- 9780226135250
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226135250.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
This is the first of two chapters to explore the early development and experience of residential segregation in South Florida between the 1890s and early 1920s. It focuses on how city officials, ...
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This is the first of two chapters to explore the early development and experience of residential segregation in South Florida between the 1890s and early 1920s. It focuses on how city officials, developers, homeowners, and landlords juggled concerns over South Florida’s residential growth with practical efforts to initiate and maintain a workable color line. Over the course of creating the conditions for what local elites considered peaceful economic growth, property rights proved to be a powerful source of political power, as black and white property owners became the principal brokers in negotiating the rules of Jim Crow segregation. The chapter places special emphasis on national and local debates around racial zoning between 1915 and 1922, while also detailing how displays of black and Native American subservience at South Florida’s various tourist attractions proved critical to sustaining the region’s early economy.Less
This is the first of two chapters to explore the early development and experience of residential segregation in South Florida between the 1890s and early 1920s. It focuses on how city officials, developers, homeowners, and landlords juggled concerns over South Florida’s residential growth with practical efforts to initiate and maintain a workable color line. Over the course of creating the conditions for what local elites considered peaceful economic growth, property rights proved to be a powerful source of political power, as black and white property owners became the principal brokers in negotiating the rules of Jim Crow segregation. The chapter places special emphasis on national and local debates around racial zoning between 1915 and 1922, while also detailing how displays of black and Native American subservience at South Florida’s various tourist attractions proved critical to sustaining the region’s early economy.
Lawrence Schenbeck
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781617032295
- eISBN:
- 9781617032301
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781617032295.003.0003
- Subject:
- Music, History, American
This chapter explores role of W.E.B Du Bois in the racial uplift effort in his pageant the Star of Ethiopia. It points out that Du Bois himself took charge of four productions of the pageant from ...
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This chapter explores role of W.E.B Du Bois in the racial uplift effort in his pageant the Star of Ethiopia. It points out that Du Bois himself took charge of four productions of the pageant from 1913 up to 1925, in New York, Washington, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles. It explains that the pageant aimed to get people fascinated with the development of the black drama, to teach African Americans themselves the meaning of their own history through the use of theater, and to show the White Americans that African Americans were also human beings.Less
This chapter explores role of W.E.B Du Bois in the racial uplift effort in his pageant the Star of Ethiopia. It points out that Du Bois himself took charge of four productions of the pageant from 1913 up to 1925, in New York, Washington, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles. It explains that the pageant aimed to get people fascinated with the development of the black drama, to teach African Americans themselves the meaning of their own history through the use of theater, and to show the White Americans that African Americans were also human beings.
