Racial Feudalism

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ID12740331
AutoresKeidrick Roy (0000-0002-5842-5023, Harvard University Press, autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Volume21
Fascículo2
Páginas296-327
Data de publicação2024-03-13
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoModern Intellectual History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1479-2443 • E-ISSN: 1479-2451
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1479244324000015
OpenAlexW4392741983
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas14

Recent scholarship has examined Alexis de Tocqueville's underexplored assertion that American racial stratification functioned as an extension of European feudalism. However, Tocqueville was not alone in his insights. At least a half-dozen nineteenth-century African American writers and thinkers, including Frederick Douglass, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Maria Stewart, Harriet Jacobs, Sojourner Truth, and especially Hosea Easton, have also described America's racial hierarchy as a continuation of antecedent European feudal social structures. Not only do their perspectives on what I call racial feudalism in America lend credence to Tocqueville's hypothesis that the afterlife of medieval social frameworks continued to persist in the post-Enlightenment United States, but also black Americans establish a distinctive body of knowledge that must be read alongside Tocqueville to render a more complete understanding of antebellum US social hierarchy

Feudalism · Hierarchy · Political science · Scholarship · Social science · Social stratification · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · American History and Culture · Classics · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law