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Bind Us Apart
Nicholas Guyatt
其他書名
How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation
出版
Oxford University Press
, 2016
主題
History / Modern / General
History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
History / Social History
Political Science / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
Social Science / Minority Studies
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies
Social Science / Discrimination
Social Science / Race & Ethnic Relations
ISBN
0198796544
9780198796541
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=5TjKDAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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The surprising and counterintuitive origins of America's racial crisisWhy did the Founding Fathers fail to include blacks and Indians in their cherished proposition that "all men are created equal"? The usual answer is racism, but the reality is more complex and unsettling. In Bind Us Apart, historian Nicholas Guyatt argues that, from the Revolution through the Civil War, most white liberals believed in the unity of all human beings. But their philosophy faltered when it came to the practical work of forging a colour-blind society. Unable to convince others - and themselves - that racial mixing was viable, white reformers began instead to claim that people of colour could only thrive in separate republics: in Native states in the American West or in the West African colony of Liberia. Herein lie the origins of "separate but equal." Decades before Reconstruction, America's liberal elite was unable to imagine how people of colour could become citizens of the United States. Throughout the nineteenth century, Native Americans were pushed farther and farther westward, while four million slaves freed after the Civil War found themselves among a white population that had spent decades imagining that they would live somewhere else.