Righteous Propagation: African Americans and the Politics of Racial Destiny After Reconstruction

by Michele Mitchell

Book Overview

Between 1877 and 1930--years rife with tensions over citizenship, suffrage, immigration, and "the Negro problem--African American activists promoted an array of strategies for progress and power built around "racial destiny," the idea that black Americans formed a collective whose future existence would be determined by the actions of its members. In Righteous Propagation, Michele Mitchell examines the reproductive implications of racial destiny,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807855677
• ISBN13: 9780807855676
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.7" x 8.8"