The Afro-American national identity from Joseph Rainey (1871-1873)
Abstract
This paper aims to analyze the construction of Afro-American national identity based on the acting of Joseph Rainey during the Forty-Second Congress of the House of Representatives (1871-1873). Born into bondage, Rainey had his freedom purchased by his father, who influenced him to become a barber. At the onset of the American Civil War, he was recruited to fight alongside the Confederates but orchestrated an escape to Bermuda with his family in 1862, returning to the United States in 1866. As the first African American elected to serve as a congressman in the federal lower house in 1870, Joseph Rainey articulates concepts that relate to both African American culture and sociability and a Eurocentric intellectual culture. Thus, the congressman presents himself as a facilitator capable of systematizing concepts already established in the American national discourse along with discursive characteristics of the rising Afro-American society to citizenship.
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