"Racially Writing the Republic "investigates the central role of
race in the construction and transformation of American national
identity from the Revolutionary War era to the height of the civil
rights movement. Drawing on political theory, American studies,
critical race theory, and gender studies, the contributors to this
collection highlight the assumptions of white (and often male)
supremacy underlying the thought and actions of major U.S.
political and social leaders. At the same time, they examine how
nonwhite writers and activists have struggled against racism and
for the full realization of America's political ideals. The essays
are arranged chronologically by subject, and, with one exception,
each essay is focused on a single figure, from George Washington to
James Baldwin.
The contributors analyze Thomas Jefferson's legacy in light of
his sexual relationship with his slave, Sally Hemings; the way that
Samuel Gompers, the first president of the American Federation of
Labor, rallied his organization against Chinese immigrant workers;
and the eugenicist origins of the early-twentieth-century
birth-control movement led by Margaret Sanger. They draw attention
to the writing of Sarah Winnemucca, a Northern Piute and one of the
first published Native American authors; the anti-lynching activist
Ida B. Wells-Barnett; the Filipino American writer Carlos Bulosan;
and the playwright Lorraine Hansberry, who linked civil rights
struggles in the United States to anticolonial efforts abroad.
Other figures considered include Alexis de Tocqueville and his
traveling companion Gustave de Beaumont, Juan Nepomuceno Cortina
(who fought against Anglo American expansion in what is now Texas),
Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and W. E. B. Du Bois. In the
afterword, George Lipsitz reflects on U.S. racial politics since
1965.
"Contributors." Bruce Baum, Cari M. Carpenter, Gary Gerstle,
Duchess Harris, Catherine A. Holland, Allan Punzalan Isaac, Laura
Janara, Ben Keppel, George Lipsitz, Gwendolyn Mink, Joel Olson,
Dorothy Roberts, Patricia A. Schechter, John Kuo Wei Tchen, Jerry
Thompson
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