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A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration Paperback - 2005

by Hahn, S

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Emphasizing the importance of kinship, labor, and networks of communication, "A Nation Under Our Feet" explores the political relations and sensibilities that developed under slavery and shows how they set the stage for grassroots mobilization.

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Harvard University Press, 2005. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,850grams, ISBN:9780674017658
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  • Title A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration
  • Author Hahn, S
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Pages 624
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harvard University Press, U.S.A.
  • Date 2005
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 9926184
  • ISBN 9780674017658 / 067401765X
  • Weight 1.75 lbs (0.79 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.3 in (23.37 x 15.49 x 3.30 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Demographic Orientation: Rural
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Library of Congress subjects Southern States - Politics and government -, African Americans - Southern States -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003045326
  • Dewey Decimal Code 975.004

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From the jacket flap

This is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a political people-an embryonic black nation. As Steven Hahn demonstrates, rural African-Americans were central political actors in the great events of disunion, emancipation, and nation-building. At the same time, Hahn asks us to think in more expansive ways about the nature and boundaries of politics and political practice. Emphasizing the importance of kinship, labor, and networks of communication, "A Nation under Our Feet" explores the political relations and sensibilities that developed under slavery and shows how they set the stage for grassroots mobilization. Hahn introduces us to local leaders, and shows how political communities were built, defended, and rebuilt. He also identifies the quest for self-governance as an essential goal of black politics across the rural South, from contests for local power during Reconstruction, to emigrationism, biracial electoral alliances, social separatism, and, eventually, migration. Hahn suggests that Garveyism and other popular forms of black nationalism absorbed and elaborated these earlier struggles, thus linking the first generation of migrants to the urban North with those who remained in the South. He offers a new framework-looking out from slavery-to understand twentieth-century forms of black political consciousness as well as emerging battles for civil rights. It is a powerful story, told here for the first time, and one that presents both an inspiring and a troubling perspective on American democracy.

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  • Chronicle of Higher Education, 08/07/2009, Page 12
  • Ingram Advance, 04/01/2005, Page 134
  • Kliatt, 09/01/2005, Page 38
  • New York Times, 06/26/2005, Page 24

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