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005			20240726105505.0
008			140206s2014 ctu ob 001 0 eng d
040			_aNT _beng _erda _epn _cNT
020			_a9780300206876 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)l((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)ctronic bk.
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050	0	4	_aE185 _b.I434 2014
049			_aNTA
100	1		_aWayne, Michael, _d1947- _e1
245	1	0	_aImagining Black America /Michael Wayne.
260			_aNew Haven : _bYale University Press, _c(c)2014.
300			_a1 online resource (xvii, 313 pages.)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_adata file _2rda
520	0		_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
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505	0	0	_aA word about race -- _tBirth of a race -- _tOn immigration, citizenship, and being "nott-Black" -- _tThe Negro, "incarnation of America" -- _tColor and class -- _tThe civil rights movement -- _tBlack Power -- _tBlack Americans : a changing demographic -- _tThe "truly disadvantaged" -- _tThe "privileged class" -- _tReimagining America.
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650		0	_aAfrican Americans _xRace identity _xHistory.
650		0	_aRace awareness _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aRace _xPhilosophy.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=692350&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell