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Imagining Black America (Hardcover)
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Imagining Black America (Hardcover)
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A fascinating and challenging inquiry into black identity and its
shifting meaning throughout U.S. history Scientific research has
now established that race should be understood as a social
construct, not a true biological division of humanity. In Imagining
Black America, Michael Wayne explores the construction and
reconstruction of black America from the arrival of the first
Africans in Jamestown in 1619 to Barack Obama’s reelection. Races
have to be imagined into existence and constantly reimagined as
circumstances change, Wayne argues, and as a consequence the
boundaries of black America have historically been contested
terrain. He discusses the emergence in the nineteenth century—and
the erosion, during the past two decades—of the notorious
“one-drop rule.” He shows how significant periods of social
transformation—emancipation, the Great Migration, the rise of the
urban ghetto, and the Civil Rights Movement—raised major
questions for black Americans about the defining characteristics of
their racial community. And he explores how factors such as class,
age, and gender have influenced perceptions of what it means to be
black. Wayne also considers how slavery and its legacy have defined
freedom in the United States. Black Americans, he argues, because
of their deep commitment to the promise of freedom and the ideals
articulated by the Founding Fathers, became and remain
quintessential Americans—the “incarnation of America,” in the
words of the civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph.
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