Blacks at Harvard: A Documentary History of African-American Experience at Harvard and Radcliffe
- ISBN-10
- 0814779735
- ISBN-13
- 9780814779736
- Category
- Education
- Pages
- 548
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1993-03-01
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Authors
- Thomas A. Underwood, Werner Sollors, Caldwell Titcomb
Description
An innovative departure from traditional approaches to political thought, this groundbreaking anthology includes minority ideologies where they occurred historically. By interweaving minority voices with majority documents rather than grouping them together, Political Thought in the United States presents us with a uniquely organic portrait of American political life. Beginning with the time of the explorers and early settlers, Lyman Tower Sargent presents the political beliefs and ideologies of religious minorities, women, North American Indians, and African Americans as fundamental components of American thought. Political Thought in the United States centers on two themes: the relationship between majority rule and minority rights, and the focus of power in the American system. Together with classic documents long heralded as cornerstones of American democracy, the book features writings of those opposed to the Constitution, slave petitions, Indian treaties, Emerson's Politics, works of conservatives like John Taylor and Herbert Hoover, documents from the feminist movements, labor manifestos, critiques of industrialization, and W. E. B. Du Bois's still-debated The Talented Tenth, and much more.
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