The Rise and Fall of the White Republic: Class Politics and Mass Culture in Nineteenth Century America
(Part of the The Haymarket Series Series)
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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
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