The Rise and Fall of the White Republic Alexander Saxton

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The Rise and Fall of the White Republic by Alexander Saxton

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In this historical study, Saxton asks why white racism remained an idealogical force in America long after the need to justify slavery and Western conquest had disappeared. It examines images of race at a popular level, from blackfaced minstrels to dime novels.

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The Rise and Fall of the White Republic: Class Politics and Mass Culture in 19th Century America by Alexander Saxton

In this acclaimed historical study, Alexander Saxton establishes the centrality of white racism to American politics and culture. Examining images of race at a popular level - from blackface minstrelsy to the construction of the Western hero, from grassroots political culture to dime novels - as well as the philosophical constructions of the political elite, it is a powerful and comprehensive account of the ideological forces at work in the formation of modern America.

The Rise and Fall of the White Republic Reviews

"This is grand history... an extraordinary book packed with detail and argument... destined to provoke deep self-searching among its sensitive readers - and probably also wounded cries from the old-line historical establishment." Paul Buhle, The Nation "... the best historical work on whiteness published since 1990 (and, I think, since Black Reconstruction) and ranks with the work of Cheryl Harris and Toni Morrison in defining the leading edge of decent scholarship in critical white studies..." David Roediger, from the foreword "No other book offers us such a richly detailed and elegantly written illumination of the relationship between race and the labyrinth of American party politics in the nineteenth century." Ron Takaki, University of California, Berkeley

About Alexander Saxton

Alexander Saxton, is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of The Indispenasble Enemy: Labor and Anti-Chinese Movement in California

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CIN1859844677A

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9781859844670

ISBN 10

1859844677

Title

The Rise and Fall of the White Republic: Class Politics and Mass Culture in 19th Century America by Alexander Saxton

Author

Alexander Saxton

Series

Haymarket Series

Condition

Used - Well Read

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Verso Books

Year published

2003-05-02

Number of pages

416

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