Righteous propagation : African Americans and the politics of racial destiny after Reconstruction

Mitchell, Michele 1965- (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0807829021 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 0807855677 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xxi, 388 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Prologue : to better our condition one way or another : African Americans and the concept of racial destiny -- 1. A great, grand, & all important question : African American emigration to Liberia -- 2. The black man's burden : imperialism and racial manhood -- 3. The strongest, most intimate hope of the race : sexuality, reproduction, and Afro-American vitality -- 4. The righteous propagation of the nation : conduct, conflict, and sexuality -- 5. Making the home life measure up : environment, class, and the healthy race household -- 6. The colored doll is a live one! : material culture, black consciousness, and cultivation of intraracial desire -- 7. A burden of responsibility : gender, "miscegenation," and race type -- 8. What a pure, healthy, unified race can accomplish : collective reproduction and the sexual politics of black nationalism -- Epilogue : the crossroads of destiny.