2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
"Race" and Suffrage : An Analysis on the Historical Construction of Whiteness in American Democracy
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19520619
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
History of Europe and America
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| Research Institution | Tohoku University |
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Principal Investigator |
OBARA Toyoshi Tohoku University, 大学院・国際文化研究科, 准教授 (10243619)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2007 – 2009
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| Keywords | アメリカ民主主義 / 白人性(ホワイトネス) / 人種意識 / 黒人選挙権 / 白人選挙権 |
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| Research Abstract |
This study aims to clarify the origin of racism of American democracy by examining the black suffrage problem in the 19^<th> century from the point of the whiteness study. In particular, this study focuses on the disfranchisement of black suffrage in the free states and considers the reasons of it in relation to white suffrage problem. As a result, it is made clear that this phenomenon was an expression of popular racial consciousness that regarded suffrage as a symbol of independence and sought to make it the privilege of "white".
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Research Products
(4 results)
