Sitting in darkness : New South fiction, education, and the rise of Jim Crow colonialism, 1865-1920 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Schmidt, Peter, 1951 December 23-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2008]
Subjects:	Literature and history > United States > History > 20th century. Literature and history > United States > History > 19th century. Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) in literature. Citizenship in literature. Imperialism in literature. Race relations in literature. Education in literature. African Americans in literature. American fiction > Southern States > History and criticism. Southern States > In literature. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Changing views of post-Civil War Black education in the fiction of Lydia Maria Child, Ellwood Griest, and Constance Fenimore Woolson (1867-1878)
A fool's education : Albion Tourgee's A fool's errand, The invisible empire, and Bricks without straw (1879-1880)
Of the people, by the people, and for the people : Frances E.W. Harper's cultural work in Iola Leroy (1892)
Conflicted race nationalism : Sutton Griggs's Imperium in imperio (1899)
Lynching and the liberal arts : rediscovering George Marion McClellan's Old Greenbottom Inn and other stories (1906)
JIm Crow colonialism's dependancy model for "uplift": promotion and reaction
Ghosts of Reconstruction : Samuel C. Armstrong, Booker T. Washington, and the disciplinary regimes of Jim Crow colonialism
From planter paternalism to Uncle Sam's largesse abroad : Ellen M. Ingraham's Bond and free (1882) and Marietta Holley's Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition (1904)
Counter-statements to Jim Crow colonialism : Mark Twain's "To the person sitting in darkness" (1901) and Aurelio Tolentino's Yesterday, today, and tomorrow (1905)
Educating whites to be white on the global frontier : hypnotism and ambivalence in Thomas Dixon and Owen Wister (1900-1905)
The dark archive: early twentieth-century critiques of Jim Crow colonialism by New South novelists
The education of Walter Hines Page : a gentleman's disagreement with the New South in The Southerner, being the autobiography of "Nicholas Worth" (1909)
Anti-colonial education? : W.E.B. Du Bois's Quest of the silver fleece (1911) and Darkwater (1920)
Romancing multiracial democracy : George Washington Cable's Lovers of Louisiana (to-day) (1918).