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• catalog abstract "This is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a political people-an embryonic black nation. As Steven Hahn demonstrates, rural African-Americans were central political actors in the great events of disunion, emancipation, and nation-building. At the same time, Hahn asks us to think in more expansive ways about the nature and boundaries of politics and political practice. Emphasizing the importance of kinship, labor, and networks of communication, A Nation under Our Feet explores the political relations and sensibilities that developed under slavery and shows how they set the stage for grassroots mobilization. Hahn introduces us to local leaders, and shows how political communities were built, defended, and rebuilt. He also identifies the quest for self-governance as an essential goal of black politics across the rural South, from contests for local power during Reconstruction, to emigrationism, biracial electoral alliances, social separatism, and, eventually, migration. Hahn suggests that Garveyism and other popular forms of black nationalism absorbed and elaborated these earlier struggles, thus linking the first generation of migrants to the urban North with those who remained in the South. He offers a new framework-looking out from slavery-to understand twentieth-century forms of black political consciousness as well as emerging battles for civil rights. It is a powerful story, told here for the first time, and one that presents both an inspiring and a troubling perspective on American democracy. Emphasizing the role of kinship, labor, and networks in the African-American community, the author retraces six generations of black struggles since the end of the Civil War, revealing a "nation" under construction throughout this entire period.".
• catalog contributor b12944953.
• catalog coverage "Southern States Politics and government 1865-1950.".
• catalog coverage "Southern States Race relations.".
• catalog coverage "Southern States Rural conditions.".
• catalog created "2003.".
• catalog date "2003".
• catalog date "2003.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [481]-593) and index.".
• catalog description "Prologue: Looking out from slavery -- pt 1. "The Jacobins of the country". -- Of chains and threads -- "The choked voice of a race at last unloosed -- Of rumors and revelations -- pt 2. To build a new Jerusalem. -- Reconstructing the body politic -- " A society turned bottomside up" -- Of paramilitary politics -- pt 3. The unvanquished. -- The education of Henry Adams -- Of ballots and biracialism -- The valley and the shadows -- Epilogue: "Up, you mighty race."".
• catalog description "This is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a political people-an embryonic black nation. As Steven Hahn demonstrates, rural African-Americans were central political actors in the great events of disunion, emancipation, and nation-building. At the same time, Hahn asks us to think in more expansive ways about the nature and boundaries of politics and political practice. Emphasizing the importance of kinship, labor, and networks of communication, A Nation under Our Feet explores the political relations and sensibilities that developed under slavery and shows how they set the stage for grassroots mobilization. Hahn introduces us to local leaders, and shows how political communities were built, defended, and rebuilt. He also identifies the quest for self-governance as an essential goal of black politics across the rural South, from contests for local power during Reconstruction, to emigrationism, biracial electoral alliances, social separatism, and, eventually, migration. Hahn suggests that Garveyism and other popular forms of black nationalism absorbed and elaborated these earlier struggles, thus linking the first generation of migrants to the urban North with those who remained in the South. He offers a new framework-looking out from slavery-to understand twentieth-century forms of black political consciousness as well as emerging battles for civil rights. It is a powerful story, told here for the first time, and one that presents both an inspiring and a troubling perspective on American democracy. Emphasizing the role of kinship, labor, and networks in the African-American community, the author retraces six generations of black struggles since the end of the Civil War, revealing a "nation" under construction throughout this entire period.".
• catalog extent "viii, 610 p., [16] p. of plates :".
• catalog hasFormat "Nation under our feet.".
• catalog identifier "0674011694 (alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Nation under our feet.".
• catalog issued "2003".
• catalog issued "2003.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,".
• catalog relation "Nation under our feet.".
• catalog spatial "Southern States Politics and government 1865-1950.".
• catalog spatial "Southern States Race relations.".
• catalog spatial "Southern States Rural conditions.".
• catalog spatial "Southern States".
• catalog spatial "United States.".
• catalog subject "975/.0049607301734 21".
• catalog subject "African Americans Social conditions To 1964.".
• catalog subject "African Americans Southern States Politics and government 19th century.".
• catalog subject "African Americans Southern States Politics and government 20th century.".
• catalog subject "E185.2 .H15 2003".
• catalog subject "Race relations History United States.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Prologue: Looking out from slavery -- pt 1. "The Jacobins of the country". -- Of chains and threads -- "The choked voice of a race at last unloosed -- Of rumors and revelations -- pt 2. To build a new Jerusalem. -- Reconstructing the body politic -- " A society turned bottomside up" -- Of paramilitary politics -- pt 3. The unvanquished. -- The education of Henry Adams -- Of ballots and biracialism -- The valley and the shadows -- Epilogue: "Up, you mighty race."".
• catalog title "A nation under our feet : Black political struggles in the rural South from slavery to the great migration / Steven Hahn.".
• catalog type "text".