Slave breeding [electronic resource] : sex, violence, and memory in African American history / Gregory D. Smithers.
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- 9780813042602
- 306.3/620975 23
- E443 .S64 2012
Includes bibliographical references and index.
American abolitionism and slave-breeding discourse -- Slavery, the lost cause, and African American history -- Black history and slave breeding in the early twentieth century -- The theater of memory -- The WPA narratives and slave breeding -- Sex, violence, and the quest for civil rights -- Slave breeding in literature, film, and new media.
An exploration of the idea of selective and forced slave breeding in the U.S. based on the collective memory and folktales of the descendants of enslaved people.
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