White Freedom : : The Racial History of an Idea / / Tyler Stovall.
The racist legacy behind the Western idea of freedomThe era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our modern conceptions of freedom and democracy, was also the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. America, a nation founded on the principle of liberty, is also a nation built on African slaver...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Freedom and Its Dark Sides
- Part 1
- Chapter 1: Savage Freedom: Piracy, Childhood, and Alternate Racial Visions of Liberty
- Chapter 2: Lady of Freedom, Lady of Whiteness: The Statue of Liberty as Symbol of White Freedom
- Part 2
- Chapter 3: Black Slavery, White Freedom: Freedom and Race in the Era of Liberal Revolution
- Chapter 4: Empire, Racial Citizenship, and Liberal Democracy
- Part 3
- Chapter 5: Fighting for Whose Liberty? Freedom and Race in the Era of Total War
- Chapter 6: Freedom Now? The Fall and Rise of White Freedom during the Cold War
- Conclusion: White Freedom and Freedom from Whiteness
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index