Tyler Stovall

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Tyler Stovall



Average rating: 4.08 · 444 ratings · 57 reviews · 12 distinct worksSimilar authors
White Freedom: The Racial H...

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Paris Noir: African-America...

4.13 avg rating — 144 ratings — published 1996 — 4 editions
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Transnational France: The M...

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Black Europe and the Africa...

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Black France / France Noire...

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The Color of Liberty: Histo...

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The Rise of the Paris Red Belt

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Paris and the Spirit of 191...

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From Near and Far: A Transn...

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France Since the Second Wor...

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“The project of translating liberal ideas of freedom into the institutional framework of liberal democracy involved suppressing such alternate ideas of liberty, of in effect rendering them Other. The increasingly powerful template of racial difference in the modern era provided an influential way of doing so.”
Tyler Stovall, White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea

“To be free is to be white, and to be white is to be free. In this reading, therefore, freedom and race are not just enemies but also allies, frères ennemis whose histories cannot be understood separately. Put baldly, at its most extreme freedom can be and historically has been a racist ideology. The”
Tyler Stovall, White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea

“David Brion Davis’s The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture (1966), explored at length the paradox of slavery and freedom in human history, noting that John Locke and other advocates of liberty at times supported the institution of human bondage.38 Other historians have noted the extent to which the call for freedom often assumed the form of a rejection of servitude, even among slaveholders themselves.39”
Tyler Stovall, White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea

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