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Noble Fight:

African American Freemasonry and the Struggle for Democracy in America
  • ISBN-13: 9780252033650
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • By Corey D. B. Walker
  • Price: AUD $107.00
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  • Local release date: 14/01/2009
  • Format: Hardback 304 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History of the Americas [HBJK]
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A Noble Fight examines the metaphors and meanings behind the African American appropriation of the culture, ritual, and institution of freemasonry in navigating the contested domain of American democracy. Combining cultural and political theory with extensive archival research--including the discovery of a rare collection of nineteenth-century records of an African American Freemason Lodge--Corey D. B. Walker provides an innovative perspective on American politics and society during the long transition from slavery to freedom. With great care and detail, Walker argues that African American freemasonry provides a critical theoretical lens for understanding the distinctive ways African Americans have constructed a radically democratic political imaginary through racial solidarity and political nationalism, forcing us to reconsider much more circumspectly the complex relationship between voluntary associations and democratic politics.
''Walker's attention to freemasonry expands the terrain of analysis of black civil society. His retelling of the story of the beginning of the association - foregrounding the black Atlantic context - recasts how scholars in the field think of the Masons and their place in African American history. Superb scholarship.'' Eddie S. Glaude Jr., author of In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America
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