A Refugee from His Race (eBook)

Albion W. Tourgée and His Fight against White Supremacy

Carolyn L. Karcher (Autor)

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2016
464 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-2796-0 (ISBN)

Infos

During one of the darkest periods of U.S. history, when white supremacy was entrenching itself throughout the nation, the white writer-jurist-activist Albion W. Tourge (1838-1905) forged an extraordinary alliance with African Americans. Acclaimed by blacks as one of the best friends of the Afro-American people this country has ever produced and reviled by white Southerners as a race traitor, Tourge offers an ideal lens through which to reexamine the often caricatured relations between progressive whites and African Americans. He collaborated closely with African Americans in founding an interracial civil rights organization eighteen years before the inception of the NAACP, in campaigning against lynching alongside Ida B. Wells and Cleveland Gazette editor Harry C. Smith, and in challenging the ideology of segregation as lead counsel for people of color in the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson case. Here, Carolyn L. Karcher provides the first in-depth account of this collaboration. Drawing on Tourges vast correspondence with African American intellectuals, activists, and ordinary folk, on African American newspapers and on his newspaper column, A Bystanders Notes, in which he quoted and replied to letters from his correspondents, the book also captures the lively dialogue about race that Tourge and his contemporaries carried on.

Autor

Carolyn L. Karcher is the author of The First Woman in the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child and the editor of Tourgee's novel Bricks Without Straw.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.2.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 9 halftones, notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: agitation against white supremacy • albion w. tourgee • Albion W. Tourgée • alliances with African Americans • antiracist fiction • campaign against lynching • civil rights advocacy for racial equality and justice • critique of racism • Harry C. Smith • Ida B. Wells • innovative journalism • interracial civil rights organization preceding the NAACP • legal challenge of segregation • Louis A. Martinet • Plessy v. Ferguson case
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-2796-5 / 1469627965
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-2796-0 / 9781469627960