Reluctant Race Men: Black Challenges to the Practice of Race in Nineteenth-Century America

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Joan L. Bryant (Associate Professor of African American Studies, Associate Professor of African American Studies, Syracuse University)

Reluctant Race Men

Black Challenges to the Practice of Race in Nineteenth-Century America

Joan L. Bryant (Associate Professor of African American Studies, Associate Professor of African American Studies, Syracuse University)

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Oxford University Press Inc
23 May 2024

History of the Americas; Slavery & abolition of slavery; History of religion; History of ideas; Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies

"Activists in the earliest Black antebellum reform endeavors contested and deprecated the concept of race. Attacks on the logic and ethics of dividing, grouping, and ranking humans into races became commonplace facets of activism in anti-colonization and emigration campaigns, suffrage and civil rights initiatives, moral reform projects, abolitionist struggles, independent church development, and confrontations with scientific thought on human origins. Denunciations persisted even as later generations of reformers felt compelled by theories of progress and American custom to promote race as a basis of a Black collective consciousness. Reluctant Race Men traces a history of the disparate challenges Black American reformers lodged against race across the long nineteenth century. It factors their opposition into the nation's history of race and reconstructs a reform tradition largely ignored in accounts of Black activism. Black-controlled newspapers, societies, churches, and conventions provided the principal loci and resources for questioning race. In these contexts, people of African descent generated a lexicon for refuting race, debated its logic, and, ultimately, reinterpreted it. Reformers' challenges call into question the notion that race is a self-evident site of identity among Black people. Their ideas instead spotlight legal, political, religious, social, and scientific practices that configured human difference, sameness, hierarchy, and consciousness. They show how a diverse set of actions constituted multi-faceted American phenomena dubbed ""race."""

By: Joan L. Bryant (Associate Professor of African American Studies Associate Professor of African American Studies Syracuse University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 156mm, Width: 235mm, Spine: 29mm
Weight: 748g
ISBN: 9780195312966
ISBN 10: 0195312961
Pages: 442
Publication Date: 23 May 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: ""Not a Difference of Species"": Nationality and the Question of Representation Chapter 2: ""That Odious Distinction"": Moral Reform and the Language of Obligations Chapter 3: ""One Common Family"": Equality and the Logic of Authority Chapter 4: ""Humanology"": Difference and the Science of Humanity Chapter 5: ""One Color Now"": Freedom and the Ethics of Association Chapter 6: ""Race-ship"": Citizenship and the Imperatives of Progress Chapter 7: ""The Whole Question of Race"": Jim Crow and the Problem of Consciousness Conclusion: ""Along the Color Line"" Notes Bibliography Index"

Joan L. Bryant is Associate Professor of African American Studies at Syracuse University.