Iron Cages Race and Culture in 19th-Century America
by Takaki, Ronald T.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1990-05-10
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary
A pathbreaking work by one of the leading scholars in the field, Iron Cages provides a unique comparative analysis of white attitudes toward Asians, Blacks, Mexicans, and Native Americans in the nineteenth century, offering a cohesive study of the foundations of race and culture in America. With a new epilogue that assesses the prospect for race relations in contemporary American society, Iron Cages is important reading for anyone interested in the history of race relations in America. In his provocative new epilogue, "The Fourth Iron Cage," Takaki focuses on race in contemporary society within the context of America's nuclear arms-oriented ceconomy. He compares the Asian-American "model minority" and the black underclass, and extends his analysis to Native Americans, Chicanos, and Puerto Ricans.
Table of Contents
| One -- Republicanism | |
| The ""Iron Cage"" in the New Nation | |
| The Birth of a Virtuous People | |
| Race and Republican Society | |
| ""Diseases"" of the Mind and Sun | |
| ""Republican Machines"" | |
| The ""Lovely White"" | |
| Within the ""Bowels"" of the Republic | |
| Head Over Heart | |
| Black Colonization | |
| Red Lockeans | |
| Two -- Enterprise | |
| Beyond Primitive Accumulation | |
| Democracy in America: | |
| The Inner World of the Bourgeoisie | |
| The Market Revolution and Race | |
| The Metaphysics of Civilization: ""The Red Race on Our Borders"" | |
| An Age of Confidence | |
| Jibbenainosay: Indian-Hatin in Fantasy | |
| Jackson: Metaphysician of Indian-Hating | |
| The Metaphysics of Civilization: ""The Black Race Within Our Bosom"" | |
| The Black Child/Savage: A Jacksonian Persuasion | |
| ""Warranteeism"": A Vision of a ""Marx of the Master Class"" | |
| Aesculapius Was a White Man: Race and the Cult of True Womanhood | |
| Three -- Technology | |
| An American Prospero in King Arthur's Court | |
| The New Body | |
| White Technology: Anglo Over Mexican | |
| The Triumph of Mind in Ameica | |
| The Iron Horse in the West | |
| ""Red Gifts"" and ""White Gifts"": The World Custer Lost | |
| The Scientific Management of Indians | |
| Civilization in the ""New South"" | |
| Machines and Magnolias"" Black Labor in an Industrial Order | |
| The ""Negro Question"": ""Higher Life"" in the South | |
| The ""Heathen Chinee"" and American Technology | |
| Ah Sin in America | |
| A Yellow Proletariat: Caste and Class in Industrial America | |
| A Vision of Catastrophe: Henry George and the American Tower of Babel | |
| Four -- Empire | |
| The Masculine Thrust Toward Asia | |
| The ""Iron Cage"" in a Corporate Civilization | |
| The New Empire: American Asceticism and the ""New Navy"" | |
| Down from the Gardens of Asia | |
| Epilogue | |
| Notes | |
| Bibliography | |
| Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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