{"id":5211,"date":"2010-02-13T00:09:18","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T00:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=5211"},"modified":"2010-02-13T00:20:21","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T00:20:21","slug":"righteous-propagation-african-americans-and-the-politics-of-racial-destiny-after-reconstruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=5211","title":{"rendered":"Righteous Propagation: African Americans and the Politics of Racial Destiny after Reconstruction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Righteous Propagation: African Americans and the Politics of Racial Destiny after Reconstruction<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

University of North Carolina Press<\/a>
\nDecember 2004
\n416 pages
\n6.125 x 9.25, 22 illus., notes, bibl., index
\nCloth ISBN: 978-0-8078-2902-8
\nPaper ISBN\u00a0 978-0-8078-5567-6<\/p>\n

Michele Mitchell<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of History
\nNew York University<\/em><\/p>\n

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Between 1877 and 1930–years rife with tensions over citizenship, suffrage<\/a>, immigration, and “the Negro problem”–African American activists promoted an array of strategies for progress and power built around “racial destiny,” the idea that black Americans formed a collective whose future existence would be determined by the actions of its members. In Righteous Propagation<\/em>, Michele Mitchell examines the reproductive implications of racial destiny, demonstrating how it forcefully linked particular visions of gender, conduct, and sexuality to collective well-being.<\/p>\n

Mitchell argues that while African Americans did not agree on specific ways to bolster their collective prospects, ideas about racial destiny and progress generally shifted from outward-looking remedies such as emigration to inward-focused debates about intraracial relationships, thereby politicizing the most private aspects of black life and spurring race activists to calcify gender roles, monitor intraracial sexual practices, and promote moral purity.<\/strong> Examining the ideas of well-known elite reformers such as Mary Church Terrell<\/a> and W. E. B. DuBois<\/a>, as well as unknown members of the working and aspiring classes, such as James Dubose and Josie Briggs Hall<\/a>, Mitchell reinterprets black protest and politics and recasts the way we think about black sexuality and progress after Reconstruction<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read the prologue here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n