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Kim Cary Warren's The Quest for Citizenship: African American and Native PDF

By Kim Cary Warren

ISBN-10: 0807833967

ISBN-13: 9780807833964

In The Quest for Citizenship, Kim Cary Warren examines the formation of African American and local American citizenship, belonging, and id within the usa by way of evaluating academic stories in Kansas among 1880 and 1935. Warren focuses her learn on Kansas, inspiration via many to be the integral loose nation, not just since it was once domestic to large populations of Indian teams and previous slaves, but in addition due to its certain historical past of clash over freedom in the course of the antebellum period.

After the Civil conflict, white reformers opened segregated colleges, eventually reinforcing the very racial hierarchies that they claimed to problem. to withstand the consequences of those reformers' activities, African american citizens constructed innovations that emphasised inclusion and integration, whereas autonomy and bicultural identities supplied the focus for local american citizens' figuring out of what it intended to be an American. Warren argues that those ways to defining American citizenship served as ideological precursors to the Indian rights and civil rights movements.

This comparative heritage of 2 nonwhite races presents a revealing research of the intersection of schooling, social keep watch over, and resistance, and the formation and that means of id for minority teams in America.

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Although some students did not support Haviland’s antislavery stance, she believed that none of them would betray a fugitive. ”24 Other than the derogatory name that Haviland’s neighbors used, the integrated school existed largely without incident. Haviland even took pride in the fact that a young white girl, who had once complained of having to sit next to an African American student in class, overcame her prejudices by the time the term ended. Like Elizabeth Comstock, Laura Haviland spoke frequently and publicly against slavery during the Civil War and continued to campaign for freedpeople’s rights after emancipation.

In public fund-raising addresses, she often stirred her listeners with anecdotes about the violence in southern states. She once spoke of a man who had migrated to Kansas with the “advance guard of the exodus. ’” Sharing such shocking stories across the country and in England, Comstock hoped to gain financial support for blacks who tried to escape the horrors of the South. 19 Comstock used her national and international connections to expose the hardships of African Americans and to seek support for their plight.

Like Elizabeth Comstock, Laura Haviland spoke frequently and publicly against slavery during the Civil War and continued to campaign for freedpeople’s rights after emancipation. To stir her listeners, Haviland often displayed items that represented enslavement from the South on her speaking engagements. She dramatically posed for photographs with the shackles, REFORMERS 27 Laura Haviland’s Antislavery Portrait. Haviland moved to Kansas to open a school for African American refugees in the 1880s after spending much of her adult life as a Quaker abolitionist.

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