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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 bla

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Anthropology

• Full title: Affect and Power
• Subtitle: Essays on Sex, Slavery, Race, and Religion
• Author: Susan Ditto, David J. Libby, Paul Spickard
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 277
• EAN: 9781934110331
• ISBN: 9781934110331
• ID: 08875206
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Weight: 421 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 24. March 2005

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