Race patriotism

Sinopse

"Race patriotism: Protest and print culture in the AME Church" examines important nineteenth-century social issues through the lens of the AME Church and its publications. This book explores the ways in which leaders and laity constructed historical narratives around varied locations to sway public opinion of the day. Drawing on the offical church newspaper, the Christian recorder, and other denominational and rare major primary sources, Bailey goes beyond previously published works that focus solely on the founding era of the tradition or the eastern seaboard or postbellum South to produce a work than [sic] that breaks new historiographical ground by spanning the entirety of the nineteenth century and exploring new geographical terrain such as the American West . . . Adding significantly to the literature on the history of the book and reading in the nineteenth century, Bailey examines AME print culture as a key to understnading African American social reform, recovering the voices of black religious leaders and writers to provide a more comprehensive and nuanced portrayal of the central debates and issues facing African Americans in the nineteenth century such a migration westward, selecting the appropriate referent for the race, Social Darwinism, and the viability of emigration to Africa." -- Book jacket.