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Equality - An American Dilemma, 1866-1896 (Paperback)
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Equality - An American Dilemma, 1866-1896 (Paperback)
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The Civil War unleashed a torrent of claims for equality - in the
chaotic years following the war, former slaves, women's rights
activists, farmhands, and factory workers all engaged in the
pursuit of the meaning of equality in America. This contest
resulted in experiments in collective action, as millions joined
leagues and unions. In Equality: An American Dilemma, 1866-1886,
Charles Postel demonstrates how taking stock of these movements
forces us to rethink some of the central myths of American history.
Despite a nationwide push for equality, egalitarian impulses
oftentimes clashed with one another. These dynamics get to the
heart of the great paradox of the fifty years following the Civil
War and of American history at large: Waves of agricultural,
labour, and women's rights movements were accompanied by the
deepening of racial discrimination and oppression. Herculean
efforts to overcome the economic inequality of the first Gilded Age
and the sexual inequality of the late-Victorian social order
emerged alongside Native American dispossession, Chinese exclusion,
Jim Crow segregation, and lynch law. Now, as Postel argues, the
twenty-first century has ushered in a second Gilded Age of savage
socioeconomic inequalities. Convincing and learned, Equality
explores the roots of these social fissures and speaks urgently to
the need for expansive strides toward equality to meet our
contemporary crisis.
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