Advertisements and Ephemera

2020 ◽  
pp. 152-185
Author(s):  
Amanda Brickell Bellows
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth

This chapter examines the ways in which Russian and American businesses represented the histories of slavery, serfdom, and emancipation in late nineteenth-century advertisements. Images of African Americans and peasants appeared in posters, trade cards, and ephemera. A comparative analysis of these depictions illuminates businesses’ distinct marketing strategies and efforts to target specific consumer groups through portrayals of historically subjugated populations.

Testimonial Incapacity and Criminal Defendants in the South

2019 ◽  
pp. 107-129
Author(s):  
Pippa Holloway
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
African Americans ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Felon Disenfranchisement ◽  
Criminal Convictions ◽  
Southern States ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Courtroom Testimony

highlights the tensions between the demands of modern law and white supremacy by studying the rights of convicted criminals in court. Many southern states, for racial and partisan ends, used criminal convictions to strip convicts of their right to testify on their own behalf in court. While states in the rest of the country had revoked such limitations on courtroom testimony by the late nineteenth century, southern states maintained them. They served as an extension of Jim Crow laws, used to deny African Americans full citizenship, much as felon disenfranchisement laws did.

Marketing the Message: The Making of the Market for Life Insurance in Australia, 1850–1940

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 929-956 ◽  
Author(s):  
MONICA J. KENELEY
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Life Insurance ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Rapid Rate ◽  
Organizational Skills ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Mutual Organization

During the late nineteenth century, sales of life insurance products in Australia increased at a rapid rate. An investigation of the way in which life insurance products were targeted to the consumers provides insights not only into the marketing approaches, but also the changing nature of the mutual organization. This article uses a “stages” approach to analyze the evolution of the marketing message. The experience of Australian mutual insurers suggests that marketing strategies, as with other types of organizational skills, evolve in response to both the prevailing business environment and the ability of the firm to acquire and implement new knowledge and ways of conducting business.

Catholics, Communism, and African Americans

2019 ◽  
pp. 240-263
Author(s):  
Cecilia A. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Racial Solidarity ◽  
Late Nineteenth

This chapter demonstrates how the integrity of “integral Catholics” was put to a stern test by the American church's willingness to countenance racism in the early and middle decades of the twentieth century. Although white ethnic communities had been provided with national parishes of their own since the late nineteenth century, expressions of African American ethnic/racial solidarity were widely viewed as an affront to the all-encompassing theology of the mystical body of Christ. The chapter shows how this patronizing racial ideology was shaken only after the Communist Party won substantial numbers of black converts in the 1930s and beyond.

Reconstruction’s Revival

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brandi Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Religious Denomination ◽  
Missionary Work ◽  
Late Nineteenth

This chapter explores how missionary work that began as evangelical outreach developed into a system of shared grievances when African Americans began to see the meaningful parallels and symmetries between their own limited political influence in the Reconstruction South and African communities affected by colonialism. Drawing on the minutes of the annual meeting and publication records of the Mission Herald, the National Baptist Convention's monthly newsletter, the chapter traces African American engagement with Africa in the late nineteenth century through the transformation of a historically decentralized religious denomination into a collective space for civic mobilization, shaped by diasporic identification and linked social circumstances.

That’s My Face

2018 ◽  
pp. 23-65
Author(s):  
Patricia de Santana Pinho
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Tourism Destination ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Roots Tourism

This chapter contextualizes African American roots tourism in Brazil both time-wise and space-wise. First, it locates the brief history of African American roots tourism within the longer trajectory of the meanings of Brazil for African Americans, spanning from the late nineteenth century—when, inspired by fantastical imaginings of Brazil as a “racial paradise,” groups of African Americans attempted to migrate there—to the present-day, when the country has become an important roots tourism destination. Second, the chapter compares representations of Brazil with those of other countries frequently visited by African American roots tourists, placing them within a wider system of meanings that the author defines as the “map of Africanness,” a map that is both spatial and temporal.

The Roads Home

2021 ◽  
pp. 55-92
Author(s):  
Phoebe S.K. Young
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Civil War ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Sierra Club ◽  
John Muir ◽  
Native Peoples ◽  
Public Nature ◽  
Late Nineteenth

Chapter 2 follows the early travels of John Muir to get a glimpse of the highly mobile landscape of the decades that followed the Civil War, particularly in the South and West. Before he rose to fame as the founder of the Sierra Club, Muir walked the country’s roads alongside mobile laborers, newly freed African Americans, and Native peoples. For them, as for the itinerant naturalist, sleeping outside could constitute a marginal and perilous, if all-too-familiar existence. Muir alternately knocked on strangers’ doors, slept outside in fear of disease and alligators, and herded sheep in Sierra meadows. His interpretations and criticisms of Black and Indigenous people figured into Muir’s seminal perspectives on wilderness, which in turn influenced changing views of public nature, including recreational and nonrecreational campers alike in the late nineteenth century.

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