AFFECT AND POWER by David J. Libby (Editor), Paul Spickard (Editor), Susan Ditto (Editor) ( 9781934110331 )

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Title:

AFFECT AND POWER
ESSAYS ON SEX, SLAVERY, RACE, AND RELIGION

By:

David J. Libby (Editor), Paul Spickard (Editor), Susan Ditto (Editor)

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

1934110337

ISBN 13:

9781934110331

Publisher:

RETHINK PRESS

Pub. date:

24 March, 2005

Pages:

277

Synopsis:

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 bla

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