Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
Why has a nation dedicated to freedom and universal ideals continually produced, through its obsession with race, an unhappily divided people? Scott L. Malcomson's search for an answer took him to communities across the country and deep into our past. From Virginia colonists "going native" onward, Malcomson argues, Americans, in their mania for self-invention, pioneered an idea of race that gave it unprecedented moral and social importance. A parade of idealists, pragmatists, and opportunists -- from Ben Franklin to Tecumseh, Washington Irving to Bobby Seale -- defined "Indian," "black," and "white" in relation to one another and in service to the aspirations and anxieties of each era. Yet these definitions have never been gladly adopted by the people they were meant to describe. To escape the limits of race, Americans have continually attempted to escape from other races -- by founding all-black towns, for example -- or to nullify race by confining, eliminating, or absorbing one another. From Puritan enslavement of Indians to the separatism we enact daily in our schools and neighborhoods, Americans have perpetually engaged with and fled from other Americans along racial lines. By not only recounting our nation's most distinctive and enduring drama but helping us to own it -- even to embrace it -- this redemptive book offers a way to move forward. - Jacket flap.
Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
Previews available in: English
Showing 6 featured editions. View all 6 editions?
Edition | Availability |
---|---|
1
One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race
2002, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
in English
0374704236 9780374704230
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
2
One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race
October 17, 2001, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English
0374527946 9780374527945
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
3
One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race
2000, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
in English
142993607X 9781429936071
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
4 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
5
One drop of blood: the American misadventure of race
2000, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Hardcover
in English
- 1st ed.
0374240795 9780374240790
|
eeee
|
6
One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race
2000, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
in English
0374700761 9780374700768
|
aaaa
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
Community Reviews (0)
Feedback?History
- Created April 17, 2024
- 1 revision
Wikipedia citation
×CloseCopy and paste this code into your Wikipedia page. Need help?
April 17, 2024 | Created by ImportBot | Imported from Better World Books record |