Culture and Containment
Race, Geographic Mobility, and Popular Culture in Nineteenth-Century America
$166.79
- Hardcover
296 pages
- Release Date
27 October 2026
Summary
Movement—who moves, where they move, and how they move—has long been perceived as a racial threat in the United States. To better understand why, Colin Anderson examines how popular culture played a central role in shaping these perceptions during the transformative period of Greater Reconstruction (1845–1900). From sheet music and lithographs to plantation reenactments and Wild West shows, white cultural producers depicted Black and Native mobility as destabilizing. These depictions normaliz…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781469698113 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1469698110 |
| Author: | Colin Anderson |
| Publisher: | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Imprint: | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 296 |
| Release Date: | 27 October 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 155mm x 235mm |
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Critics Review
“A powerful look at how nineteenth-century popular culture both contested and was constrained by racial mobility. Anderson expands our understanding of mobility by illuminating the intersections of cultural expression and systemic racial control and draws connections between federal Indian policy and Jim Crow segregation.”—Katrina M. Phillips, author of Staging Indigeneity: Salvage Tourism and the Performance of Native American History
Colin Anderson
Colin Anderson is assistant professor of history and law at the University of Tampa.
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