Rituals of blood : consequences of slavery in two American centuries / Orlando Patterson.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Patterson, Orlando, 1940-
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Civitas, [1998], ©1998.
Subjects:
United States > Race relations.
United States > Ethnic relations.
United States > Social conditions.
Sex role > United States.
African Americans > Social conditions.
African Americans > History.
Slavery > United States > History.
Physical Description:xxii, 330 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Broken bloodlines: gender relations and the crisis of marriages and families among Afro-Americans
  • Feast of blood: "race," religion, and human sacrifice in the postbellum South
  • American Dionysus: images of Afro-American men at the dawn of the twenty-first century.