Gendered Freedoms: Race, Rights, and the Politics of Household in the Delta, 1861-1875 (Southern Dissent) - Tapa blanda

Bercaw, Nancy D.

 
9780813027883: Gendered Freedoms: Race, Rights, and the Politics of Household in the Delta, 1861-1875 (Southern Dissent)
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ISBN 10: 0813027888 ISBN 13: 9780813027883
Editorial: University Press of Florida, 2003

Sinopsis

In May 1862, hundreds of African-Americans freed themselves in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta and in the process destroyed the South's fundamental structure of power - the plantation household. Yet at the moment of freedom, southerners did not discard what they knew. Instead, blacks and whites, men and women constructed competing visions of freedom based on their particular understanding of household authority. General Freedoms explores this first generation of freedom and presents an intimate history of the political consciousness of the franchised and disenfranchised during the Civil War and Reconstruction in the Mississippi Delta. Gendered Freedoms is the first book to analyze black and white southerners' subjective understandings of the household, challenging us to reexamine the relationship between identity and political consciousness. Where others emphasize the household principally as a structure based on an ideology of power, Nancy Bercaw demonstrates how deeply household hierarchies permeated into southerners' most personal sense of themselves, shaping their perceptions of their autonomy, rights, duties, and obligations to one another. The author highlights the importance of

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In May 1862, hundreds of African-Americans freed themselves in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta and in the process destroyed the South's fundamental structure of power - the plantation household. Yet at the moment of freedom, southerners did not discard what they knew. Instead, blacks and whites, men and women constructed competing visions of freedom based on their particular understanding of household authority. General Freedoms explores this first generation of freedom and presents an intimate history of the political consciousness of the franchised and disenfranchised during the Civil War and Reconstruction in the Mississippi Delta. Gendered Freedoms is the first book to analyze black and white southerners' subjective understandings of the household, challenging us to reexamine the relationship between identity and political consciousness. Where others emphasize the household principally as a structure based on an ideology of power, Nancy Bercaw demonstrates how deeply household hierarchies permeated into southerners' most personal sense of themselves, shaping their perceptions of their autonomy, rights, duties, and obligations to one another. The author highlights the importance of

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Editorial
University Press of Florida
Año de publicación
2003
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0813027888
ISBN 13 
9780813027883
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Número de páginas
304
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9780813025919: Gendered Freedoms: Race, Rights and the Politics of Household in the Delta, 1861-1875 (Southern Dissent)

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ISBN 10:  0813025915 ISBN 13:  9780813025919
Editorial: University Press of Florida, 2003
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