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Dominican Crossroads: H. C. C. Astwood and the Moral Politics of Race-Making in the Age of Emancipation

Name: Dominican Crossroads: H. C. C. Astwood and the Moral Politics of Race-Making in the Age of Emancipation
Brand: Duke University Press
SKU: 9781478026693
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Contributors:

Christina Cecelia Davidson

Publisher:

Duke University Press

Binding:

Hardcover

Book Category:

Social Science, History

Book Subcategory:

Cultural & Ethnic Studies, Latin America, United States

Book Topic:

American, 19th Century

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Release Date:

10/18/2024

ISBN 13:

9781478026693

Weight:

1.61 lbs

Size:

9.00 x 6.00 x 1.00 inches

Pages:

384

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H. C. C. Astwood: minister and missionary, diplomat and politician, enigma in the annals of US history. In Dominican Crossroads, Christina Cecelia Davidson explores Astwood's extraordinary and complicated life and career. Born in 1844 in the British Caribbean, Astwood later moved to Reconstruction-era New Orleans, where he became a Republican activist and preacher in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. In 1882 he became the first Black man named US consul to the Dominican Republic. Davidson tracks the challenges that Astwood faced as a Black politician in an era of rampant racism and ongoing cross-border debates over Black men's capacity for citizenship. As a US representative and AME missionary, Astwood epitomized Black masculine respectability. But as Davidson shows, Astwood became a duplicitous, scheming figure who used deception and engaged in racist moral politics to command authority. His methods, Davidson demonstrates, show a bleaker side of Black international politics and illustrate the varied contours of transnational moral discourse as people of all colors vied for power during the ongoing debate over Black rights in Santo Domingo and beyond.

About the Author
Christina Cecelia Davidson is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Southern California.

Dominican Crossroads: H. C. C. Astwood and the Moral Politics of Race-Making in the Age of Emancipation

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