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5 - Black Resistance against Slavery and Discrimination

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2021

Teun A. van Dijk
Teun A. van Dijk
Affiliation:
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
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In the 19th century, also black writers joined the increasing criticism against slavery. Most prominent was former slave Frederick Douglas and his writings, describing the terrible abuses of the slaver masters. After the abolition of slavery in the USA in 1985, racist discrimination of African Americans did not stop. After Reconstruction, Jim Crow segregation, lynchings and many forms of discrimination were prevalent, especially in the South. Important black writers were W.E.B. Dubois, and his contributions to the NAACP, also during international travels. Black sociologist Ida Wells was influential in her critical accounts of lynchings, as was feminist Anna Julia Hayward Cooper.

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Black writers against slaveryFrederick DouglasJim Crow segregationlynchingsdiscriminationW.E.B. DuboisNAACPIda WellslynchingsAnna Julia Hayward Cooper.
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Antiracist Discourse
Theory and History of a Macromovement
 , pp. 119 - 136
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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