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- 题名/责任者:
- A dreadful deceit : the myth of race from the colonial era to Obama's America / Jacqueline Jones.
- 出版发行项:
- New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, 2015.
- ISBN:
- 0465055672
- ISBN:
- 9780465055678
- 载体形态项:
- xvii, 381 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- 个人责任者:
- Jones, Jacqueline, 1948-
- 论题主题:
- Race awareness-United States-History.
- 论题主题:
- Race-Philosophy.
- 论题主题:
- African Americans-Race identity-History.
- 论题主题:
- African Americans-Biography.
- 地理名称主题:
- United States-Race relations-History.
- 中图法分类号:
- K712.8
- 书目附注:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-362) and index.
- 摘要附注:
- "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. For Antonio, an enslaved Angolan man tortured to death by his owner in 1650s Maryland, being black meant being defined purely in terms of physical characteristics, without regard to his actual ethnicity (his Angolan identity) and without association with any countrymen, confederates, or co-religionists who might support him. The label made Antonio uniquely vulnerable, and indeed gained traction precisely because it defined, rationalized, and exploited that vulnerability. It is one of the terrible ironies of history that later generations of African Americans developed a shared identity around this mythologized label, yet it is also true that each generation has also had to confront its limits and limitations."--Publisher information.
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