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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Guyatt, Nicholas, 1973- author.     Subjects     Racism -- United States -- History.     Indians of North America -- Colonization -- United States.     African Americans -- Colonization -- Africa.     United States -- Race relations -- History -- 18th century.     United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Guyatt, Nicholas, 1973- author.       by title:      Bind us apart : how ...         MARC Display

Bind us apart : how enlightened Americans invented racial segregation / Nicholas Guyatt. by Guyatt, Nicholas, 1973- author. New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, c2016. Subjects Racism -- United States -- History.   Indians of North America -- Colonization -- United States.   African Americans -- Colonization -- Africa.   United States -- Race relations -- History -- 18th century.   United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century. ISBN:  9780465018413 (hardback) : 0465018416 (hardback) Description:  xii, 403 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm Contents:  The prehistory of "separate but equal" -- Degradation. Becoming good citizens ; A few bad men ; Correcting ill habits ; One nation only -- Amalgamation. To the middle ground ; We shall all be Americans ; The practical amalgamator -- Colonization. Of color and country ; The choice ; Opening the road ; In these deserts -- An enterprise for the young. Requests:  0 Summary:  ""All men are created equal" is America's most cherished proposition. But for more than a century after Thomas Jefferson wrote those words, the Founding Fathers and their successors failed to extend the promise of the Declaration of Independence to blacks and Indians. Why? We take refuge in the notion that white people at the time were the prisoners of racist ideas and that we today are more enlightened. In this popular view, the history of America demonstrates how racist beliefs have been slowly discarded, with later generations realizing the dream of liberty and equality. But as Nick Guyatt argues in Bind Us Apart, white Americans from the founding to the Civil War were not confident racists who blithely condemned blacks and Indians to inferior status. Instead, they were confused and tortured souls, and often remarkably conscious of the damage that racism might do to the nation's future. They looked for ways to reconcile their principles and their prejudices, and sometimes succeeded: in the first decades of the United States, blacks went to the polls alongside whites in some northern states, and federal officials promoted intermarriage between Indians and frontier settlers in the hope that racial divisions would disappear in the West"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 305.80097 Gu Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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