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The Allure of Blackness among Mixed-Race Americans, 1862-1916 (Hardcover)
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The Allure of Blackness among Mixed-Race Americans, 1862-1916 (Hardcover)
Series: Borderlands and Transcultural Studies
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In The Allure of Blackness among Mixed-Race Americans, 1862-1916,
Ingrid Dineen-Wimberly examines generations of mixed-race African
Americans after the Civil War and into the Progressive Era,
skillfully tracking the rise of a leadership class in Black America
made up largely of individuals who had complex racial ancestries,
many of whom therefore enjoyed racial options to identity as either
Black or White. Although these people might have chosen to pass as
White to avoid the racial violence and exclusion associated with
the dominant racial ideology of the time, they instead chose to
identify as Black Americans, a decision that provided upward
mobility in social, political, and economic terms. Dineen-Wimberly
highlights African American economic and political leaders and
educators such as P. B. S. Pinchback, Theophile T. Allain, Booker
T. Washington, and Frederick Douglass as well as women such as
Josephine B. Willson Bruce and E. Azalia Hackley who were prominent
clubwomen, lecturers, educators, and settlement house founders. In
their quest for leadership within the African American community,
these leaders drew on the concept of Blackness as a source of
opportunities and power to transform their communities in the long
struggle for Black equality. The Allure of Blackness among
Mixed-Race Americans, 1862-1916 confounds much of the conventional
wisdom about racially complicated people and details the manner in
which they chose their racial identity and ultimately overturns the
"passing" trope that has dominated so much Americanist scholarship
and social thought about the relationship between race and social
and political transformation in the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries.
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