The Rise and Fall of the White Republic: Class Politics and Mass Culture in Nineteenth Century America

by Alexander Saxton

Book Overview

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 noveis -- 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 086091271X
• ISBN13: 9780860912712
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 397 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher