Rituals of Race American Public Culture and the Search for Racial Democracy
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- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Univ of Virginia Pr
- Publish date: 06/01/1999
Lorini defines public culture as a conflictual space in which gender, race, and class alliances are made and remade in the ongoing battle for expanded democracy. She then explores how public rituals directly confronted the demeaning representations of blacks prevalent in America's civic and national culture -- particularly the idea of black racial inferiority outlined in theories of "racial science." Through rituals, blacks constructed collective memories and identities, which ultimately served as the basis for their assertion of what Lorini calls "participatory democracy, " a movement created by ordinary citizens in which activists such as W. E. B. DuBois, Ida Wells-Barnett, Mary White Ovington, and Booker T. Washington could attempt to effect social change.
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