The Rise and Fall of the White Republic: Class Politics and Mass Culture in Nineteenth-century America
- ISBN-10
- 086091271X
- ISBN-13
- 9780860912712
- Category
- Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
- Pages
- 397
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1990
- Publisher
- Verso
- Author
- Alexander Saxton
Description
In this acclaimed historical study, Alexander Saxton establishes the centrality of white racism to American politics and culture. Examining images of race at a popular level - from blackface minstrelsy to the construction of the Western hero, from grassroots political culture to dime novels - as well as the philosophical constructions of the political elite, it is a powerful and comprehensive account of the ideological forces at work in the formation of modern America.
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