Righteous Propagation: African Americans and the Politics of Destiny after Reconstruction.(Book review)
Historian, The, March, 2006 by Godshalk, David Fort
Righteous Propagation: African Americans and the Politics of Destiny After Reconstruction. By Michele Mitchell. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Pp. xxi, 388. $22.50.)
This study makes vital contributions to the historiography of American sexuality and offers a provocative reinterpretation of black cultural history. Michele Mitchell asks new questions of conventional primary sources and examines a wealth of previously overlooked documents, including instructional manuals on black home life, advertisements for black dolls, and popular guides on promoting the chastity of black youth.
Mitchell argues that postbellum African Americans generally recognized that they shared a common "racial destiny," which they sought to realize...
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