The Rise and Fall of the White Republic

Class Politics and Mass Culture in Nineteenth-century America

• Author(s): Alexander Saxton,
• Publisher: Verso
• Pages: 397
• ISBN_10: 086091271X
  ISBN_13: 9780860912712
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / United States / 19th Century , History / United States / 20th Century , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Social Science / Popular Culture ,

Description:... In this acclaimed historical study, Alexander Saxton establishes the centrality of white racism to American politics and culture. Examining images of race at a popular level - from blackface minstrelsy to the construction of the Western hero, from grassroots political culture to dime novels - as well as the philosophical constructions of the political elite, it is a powerful and comprehensive account of the ideological forces at work in the formation of modern America.