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Nicholas Guyatt - Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation - 9780465018413 - V9780465018413
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Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation

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Description for Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation Hardcover. Num Pages: 416 pages, B/W photos throughout. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 35. .
Why did the Founding Fathers fail to include blacks and Indians in their cherished proposition that all men are created equal ? The usual answer is racism, but the reality is more complex and unsettling. In Bind Us Apart , historian Nicholas Guyatt argues that, from the Revolution through the Civil War, most white liberals believed in the unity of all human beings. But their philosophy faltered when it came to the practical work of forging a colour-blind society. Unable to convince others,and themselves,that racial mixing was viable, white reformers began instead to claim that people of colour ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Basic Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780465018413
SKU
V9780465018413
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99-15

About Nicholas Guyatt
Nicholas Guyatt is a university lecturer in history at the University of Cambridge. He is a regular contributor to the Nation, London Review of Books, and Guardian. Guyatt lives in Cambridge, England.

Reviews for Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation
Washington Post Offer[s] a grim vision of America and of human nature, but one consistent with an era when the prison warden has supplanted the slave master, and when Black Lives Matter is the latest incarnation of a civil rights movement that has no reason to stop moving... The greatest service... Guyatt provide[s] is the ruthless prosecution of American ... Read more

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