David G Cox
Biographic Data
| ID | 8521540 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David G Cox |
| GIVEN NAMES | David G |
| FAMILY NAME | Cox |
| SIGNATURE | COX D G |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Race, Reconstruction, and the Invention of "Negro Superstition," 1862-1877
This article traces the postbellum development and dissemination of the notion of "negro superstition." By the end of Reconstruction, many whites across the nation, both liberal and conservative, shared in the belief that credulity was the keystone of African American culture. The formulation of superstition as innate racial trait served the conjoined causes of sectional reconciliation and white supremacy, eroding white support for black citizens…
Half Bacchanalian, Half Devout”
In the wake of the Civil War, white Americans generated an unprecedented amount of writing about the songs, stories, and “superstitions” of black southerners. This interest was not purely esthetic. In the late nineteenth century, folk culture was commonly conceptualized as a gauge of racial character and potential; in consequence, discourse on black folklore was entangled with the debate on the social and political place of African Americans. A n…
Help Me to Find My People
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Help Me to Find My People
Half Bacchanalian, Half Devout”
In the wake of the Civil War, white Americans generated an unprecedented amount of writing about the songs, stories, and “superstitions” of black southerners. This interest was not purely esthetic. In the late nineteenth century, folk culture was commonly conceptualized as a gauge of racial character and potential; in consequence, discourse on black folklore was entangled with the debate on the social and political place of African Americans. A n…
Race, Reconstruction, and the Invention of "Negro Superstition," 1862-1877
This article traces the postbellum development and dissemination of the notion of "negro superstition." By the end of Reconstruction, many whites across the nation, both liberal and conservative, shared in the belief that credulity was the keystone of African American culture. The formulation of superstition as innate racial trait served the conjoined causes of sectional reconciliation and white supremacy, eroding white support for black citizens…
Race, History, and American Society (4 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · White (mutation (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · African american (1 work) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 work) · American History and Culture (1 work)