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For more than twenty years, Roy Underhill has taught the techniques
of traditional woodcraft with muscle-powered tools. With his four
previous books and his popular PBS series, The Woodwright's Shop,
now in its sixteenth season, Roy has inspired millions to take up
chisel and plane. The master woodwright returns here with
instructions for handcrafting an appealing selection of projects
from the American woodworking tradition. The Woodwright's
Apprentice begins with directions for building a workbench. Each
successive project builds new skills for the apprentice
woodworker--from frame construction to dovetailing, turning,
steam-bending, and carving. Among the twenty items featured are an
African chair, a telescoping music stand, a walking-stick chair, a
fireplace bellows, and a revolving Windsor chair. Designed both for
woodworking novices and for more seasoned woodworkers looking for
enjoyable projects, the book includes step-by-step directions,
complete with easy-to-follow photographs and measured drawings, and
an illustrated glossary of tools and terms. All of the pieces
presented here are based on projects featured in past and upcoming
seasons of The Woodwright's Shop television show. |Amidst the
violent racism prevalent at the turn of the 20th century, African
American cultural elites, struggling to articulate a positive black
identity, developed a middle-class ideology of racial uplift.
Insisting that they were truly representative of the race's
potential, black elites espoused an ethos of self-help and service
to the black masses and distinguished themselves from the black
majority as agents of civilization; hence the phrase 'uplifting the
race.' A central assumption of racial uplift ideology was that
African Americans' material and moral progress would diminish white
racism. But Kevin Gaines argues that, in its emphasis on class
distinctions and patriarchal authority, racial uplift ideology was
tied to pejorative notions of racial pathology and thus was limited
as a force against white prejudice.
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