A dreadful deceit, the myth of race from the colonial era to Obama's America, Jacqueline Jones
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A dreadful deceit, the myth of race from the colonial era to Obama's America, Jacqueline Jones
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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contains biographical information
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illustrations
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index present
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non fiction
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A dreadful deceit
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bibliography
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841892956
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Jacqueline Jones
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the myth of race from the colonial era to Obama's America
Summary
"In A Dreadful Deceit, award-winning social historian Jacqueline Jones traces the lives of six African Americans from the colonial era to the late 20th century, using their stories to illustrate the complex ways in which racial ideologies in this country have changed since the first Africans arrived on the nation's shores hundreds of years ago. The very idea of "blackness," she shows, has changed fundamentally over this period."--, Provided by publisher
Table Of Contents
Antonia: a killing in early colonial Maryland -- Boston King: self-interested patriotism in revolutionary-era South Carolina -- Elleanor Eldridge: "complexional hindrance" in antebellum Rhode Island -- Richard W. White: "racial" politics in post-civil war Savannah -- William H. Holtzclaw: the "black man's burden" in the heart of Mississippi -- Simon P. Owens: a Detroit wildcatter at the point of production
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