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Affect and Power - Essays on Sex, Slavery, Race, and Religion (Paperback)
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Affect and Power - Essays on Sex, Slavery, Race, and Religion (Paperback)
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In 1968, Winthrop D. Jordan published his groundbreaking work White
Over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812 and
opened up new avenues for thinking about sex, slavery, race, and
religion in American culture. Over the course of a forty-year
career at the University of California and the University of
Mississippi, he continued to write about these issues and to train
others to think in new ways about interactions of race, gender,
faith, and power. Written by former students of Jordan, these
essays are a tribute to the career of one of America's great
thinkers and perhaps the most influential American historian of his
generation. The book visits historical locales from Puritan New
England and French Louisiana to nineteenth-century New York and
Mississippi, all the way to Harlem swing clubs and college campuses
in the twentieth century. In the process, authors listen to the
voices of abolitionists and white supremacists, preachers and
politicos, white farm women and black sorority sisters, slaves, and
jazz musicians. Each essay represents an important contribution to
the collection's larger themes and at the same time illustrates the
impact Jordan exerted on the scholarly life of each author.
Collectively, these pieces demonstrate the attentiveness to detail
and sensitivity to sources that are hallmarks of Jordan's own work.
David J. Libby, San Antonio, Texas, is the author of Slavery and
Frontier Mississippi: 1720-1835 (University Press of Mississippi).
Paul Spickard, Santa Barbara, California, is the co-editor of
Racial Thinking in the United States: Uncompleted Independence and
the author of Mixed Blood: Intermarriage and Ethnic Identity in
Twentieth-Century America. Susan Ditto, Oxford, Mississippi, is the
associate editor of Mississippi Women: Their Histories, Their
Lives.
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