American Studies in Black and White

by Kaplan, Sidney; Austin, Allan D.; Franklin, John Hope

• ISBN13: 9781558490192
• ISBN10: 1558490191
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-03-01
• Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Pr

Summary

The twelve essays presented here are a representative sample of the pioneering work Sydney Kaplan has produced in the fields of American and black studies. Selected from over fifty published pieces, the essays reflect Kaplan's lifelong passion to demonstrate the centrality of the African-American experience to our national experience, to show that an understanding of black history is indispensable to an understanding of American history.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Editor's Introduction	p. xi
The Colonial And Revolutionary Eras	p. 1
"The Selling of Joseph"Samuel Sewall and the Iniquity Of Slavery	p. 3
The "Domestic Insurrections"Of the Declaration Of Independence	p. 18
Blacks in Massachusetts And The Shays' Rebellion	p. 33
Civil War	p. 45
The Miscegenation Issue In the Election Of 1864	p. 47
The Black Soldier Of the Civil War in Literature And Art	p. 101
Fiction And Fantasy	p. 125
Poe's Pym An Introduction to the Narrative Of Arthur Gordon Pym	p. 127
Towards Pip and Daggoo Footnote on Meliville's Youth	p. 144
Herman Melville and the American National Sin: the Meaning Of Benito Cereno	p. 159
The Octoroon Early History of the Drama Of Miscegenation	p. 198
Art	p. 209
Notes on the Exhibition The Portrayal of the Negro In American Painting	p. 211
Invention	p. 227
Lewis Temple And The Hunting of the Whale	p. 229
Jan Earnst Matzeliger And the Making Of The Shoe	p. 240
Acknowledgments	p. 259
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