Righteous propagation : African Americans and the politics of racial destiny after Reconstruction / by Michele Mitchell.

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2004]

xxi, 388 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Prologue : to better our condition one way or another : African Americans and the concept of racial destiny -- A great, grand & all important question : African American emigration to Liberia -- The Black man's burden : imperialism and racial manhood -- The strongest, most intimate hope of the race : sexuality, reproduction, and Afro-American vitality -- The righteous propagation of the nation : conduct, conflict, and sexuality -- Making the home life measure up : environment, class, and the healthy race household -- The colored doll is a live one! : material culture, Black consciousness, and cultivation of intraracial desire -- A burden of responsibility : gender, "miscegenation," and race type -- What a pure, healthy, unified race can accomplish : collective reproduction and the sexual politics of Black nationalism -- Epilogue : the crossroads of destiny.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-372) and index.