| Affect and Power: Essays on Sex, Slavery, Race, and Religion in Appreciation of Winthrop D. Jordan Contributor(s): Libby, David J. (Editor), Spickard, Paul (Editor), Ditto, Susan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1934110337 ISBN-13: 9781934110331 Publisher: University Press of Mississippi OUR PRICE: $34.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2007 Annotation: An anthology honoring the work of the influential historian Winthrop D. Jordan |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) |
| Dewey: 305.800 |
| Physical Information: 0.58" H x 6" W x 9" (0.84 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Chronological Period - 1800-1850 - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In 1968, Winthrop D. Jordan published his groundbreaking work White Over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812 and opened up new avenues for thinking about sex, slavery, race, and religion in American culture. Over the course of a forty-year career at the University of California and the University of Mississippi, he continued to write about these issues and to train others to think in new ways about interactions of race, gender, faith, and power. Written by former students of Jordan, these essays are a tribute to the career of one of America's great thinkers and perhaps the most influential American historian of his generation. The book visits historical locales from Puritan New England and French Louisiana to nineteenth-century New York and Mississippi, all the way to Harlem swing clubs and college campuses in the twentieth century. In the process, authors listen to the voices of abolitionists and white supremacists, preachers and politicos, white farm women and black sorority sisters, slaves, and jazz musicians. Each essay represents an important contribution to the collection's larger themes and at the same time illustrates the impact Jordan exerted on the scholarly life of each author. Collectively, these pieces demonstrate the attentiveness to detail and sensitivity to sources that are hallmarks of Jordan's own work. |
Contributor Bio(s): Spickard, Paul: - Paul Spickard is coeditor of Racial Thinking in the United States: Uncompleted Independence and author of Mixed Blood: Intermarriage and Ethnic Identity in Twentieth-Century America.Ditto, Susan: - Susan Ditto is associate editor of Mississippi Women: Their Histories, Their Lives.Libby, David J.: - David J. Libby, an independent scholar, lives in San Antonio, Texas. His work has been published in CrossRoads: A Journal of Southern Culture. |