The Color of Race in America, 1900-1940 /
Guterl, Matthew Pratt
The Color of Race in America, 1900-1940 / Matthew Pratt Guterl. - 1 online resource (256 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1. Salvaging a Shipwrecked World -- 2. Bleeding the Irish White -- 3. Against the White Leviathan -- 4. The Hypnotic Division of America -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
With the social change brought on by the Great Migration of African Americans into the urban northeast after the Great War came the surge of a biracial sensibility that made America different from other Western nations. How white and black people thought about race and how both groups understood and attempted to define and control the demographic transformation are the subjects of this new book by a rising star in American history. An elegant account of the roiling environment that witnessed the shift from the multiplicity of white races to the arrival of biracialism, this book focuses on four representative spokesmen for the transforming age: Daniel Cohalan, the Irish-American nationalist, Tammany Hall man, and ruthless politician; Madison Grant, the patrician eugenicist and noisy white supremacist; W. E. B. Du Bois, the African-American social scientist and advocate of social justice; and Jean Toomer, the American pluralist and novelist of the interior life. Race, politics, and classification were their intense and troubling preoccupations in a world they did not create, would not accept, and tried to change.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780674038059
10.4159/9780674038059 doi
Ethnicity--History--United States--20th century.
Race awareness--History--United States--20th century.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
E184.A1 / G96 2001
305.8/00973
The Color of Race in America, 1900-1940 / Matthew Pratt Guterl. - 1 online resource (256 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1. Salvaging a Shipwrecked World -- 2. Bleeding the Irish White -- 3. Against the White Leviathan -- 4. The Hypnotic Division of America -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
With the social change brought on by the Great Migration of African Americans into the urban northeast after the Great War came the surge of a biracial sensibility that made America different from other Western nations. How white and black people thought about race and how both groups understood and attempted to define and control the demographic transformation are the subjects of this new book by a rising star in American history. An elegant account of the roiling environment that witnessed the shift from the multiplicity of white races to the arrival of biracialism, this book focuses on four representative spokesmen for the transforming age: Daniel Cohalan, the Irish-American nationalist, Tammany Hall man, and ruthless politician; Madison Grant, the patrician eugenicist and noisy white supremacist; W. E. B. Du Bois, the African-American social scientist and advocate of social justice; and Jean Toomer, the American pluralist and novelist of the interior life. Race, politics, and classification were their intense and troubling preoccupations in a world they did not create, would not accept, and tried to change.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780674038059
10.4159/9780674038059 doi
Ethnicity--History--United States--20th century.
Race awareness--History--United States--20th century.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
E184.A1 / G96 2001
305.8/00973