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Dominican Crossroads
- H. C. C. Astwood and the Moral Politics of Race-Making in the Age of Emancipation
Engelsk Paperback
Dominican Crossroads
- H. C. C. Astwood and the Moral Politics of Race-Making in the Age of Emancipation
Engelsk Paperback

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H. C. C. Astwood: minister and missionary, diplomat and politician, enigma in the annals of US history. In Dominican Crossroads, Christina Cecelia Davidson explores Astwood’s extraordinary and complicated life and career. Born in 1844 in the British Caribbean, Astwood later moved to Reconstruction-era New Orleans, where he became a Republican activist and preacher in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. In 1882 he became the first Black man named US consul to the Dominican Republic. Davidson tracks the challenges that Astwood faced as a Black politician in an era of rampant racism and ongoing cross-border debates over Black men’s capacity for citizenship. As a US representative and AME missionary, Astwood epitomized Black masculine respectability. But as Davidson shows, Astwood became a duplicitous, scheming figure who used deception and engaged in racist moral politics to command authority. His methods, Davidson demonstrates, show a bleaker side of Black international politics and illustrate the varied contours of transnational moral discourse as people of all colors vied for power during the ongoing debate over Black rights in Santo Domingo and beyond.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9781478030942
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1478030941
Udg. Dato:
18 okt 2024
Længde:
23mm
Bredde:
230mm
Højde:
153mm
Forlag:
Duke University Press
Oplagsdato:
18 okt 2024
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