The Booker T. Washington Papers - Couverture rigide

Washington, Booker T

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0252002423 ISBN 13 : 9780252002427

Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 1972

Synopsis

Here is the first of fifteen volumes in a project C. Vann Woodward called "the single most important research enterprise now under way in the field of American black history."

Volume 1 contains Washington's Up from Slavery, one of the most widely read American autobiographies, in addition to The Story of My Life and Work, and six other autobiographical writings. Together, the selections provide readers with a first step toward understanding Washington and his immense impact. These writings reveal the moral values he absorbed from his mid-nineteenth-century experiences and teachers. As importantly, they present him to the world as he wished to be seen: as the black version of the American success hero and an exemplar of the Puritan work ethic that he believed to be the secret of his success. These works, along with so much of Washington's writing, served as a model for many black Americans striving to overcome poverty and prejudice.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Louis R. Harlan is professor of history at the University of Maryland. He is the author of Separate and Unequal: Public School Campaigns and Racism in the Southern Seaboard States, 1901-1915 (1958), and Booker T. Washington: The Making of a Black Leader, 1856-1901 (1972). John W. Blassingame is assistant professor of history and acting chairman of Afro-American Studies at Yale University. He is editor of New Perspectives on Black Studies (1971) and author of The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the American South (1972).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Illinois Press
• Date d'édition: 1972
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0252002423
• ISBN 13: 9780252002427
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 509
• Éditeur: Harlan Louis R.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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