UID:
almafu_9961455199102883
Umfang:
1 online resource (385 pages)
Ausgabe:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781478059929
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1478059923
Inhalt:
"Dominican Crossroads explores diplomatic and cultural relations between the Dominican Republic and the United States in the late nineteenth century. Christina Davidson focuses on Henry Charles Clifford (H. C. C.) Astwood, the first Black man to serve as US consul to the Dominican Republic. Born in the British Caribbean, Astwood migrated to the Dominican Republic's northern coast after its War of Restoration against Spain (1863-1865). He then left the island for Reconstruction-era New Orleans where he became a Republican activist and preacher in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. Dominican Crossroads tracks the challenges that Astwood faced as a Black politician in an era of rampant racism and ongoing cross-border debate over Black men's capacity for citizenship and political authority. Atwood engaged in the era's "moral politics of race-making"- defined as the purposeful deconstruction and reconstruction of racist moral logic-in order to command political authority. He remains an enigma on the sidelines of US history because of a concerted effort to shield the public from the dealings of a duplicitous middleman whose extraordinary life defied borders of all kinds: national, cultural, racial, and moral"--
Anmerkung:
A shadowy past : Henry Astwood and the transition from slavery to freedom -- A reconstructed life : becoming H.C.C. Astwood in the US-Caribbean sphere -- The other Black republic : segregated statecraft and the dual nature of US-Dominican diplomacy -- Death and deceit : Black political authority and the forging of US moral logic abroad -- Between tolerance and tyranny : Protestant Dominicans, social morality, and the making of a liberal nation -- Leasing Columbus : holy relics, public ridicule, and the reconstruction of two Americas -- "The cheekiest man on Earth" : H.C.C. Astwood and the politics of White moral exclusivity.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781478026693
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1478026693
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ISBN 9781478030942
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1478030941
Sprache:
Englisch
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