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Human Rights, Slavery and Race Relations<\/strong><\/p>\n

See also Writings on the United States and Canada (Including Democracy in America)<\/a><\/p>\n

If there be a country in the world where the doctrine of the sovereignty of the people can be fairly appreciated,\u00a0<\/i>\u00a0where it can be studied in its application to the affairs of society, and where its dangers and its advantages may be foreseen, that country is assuredly America.<\/i><\/p>\n

Alexis de Tocqueville, American Institutions and Their Influence 53 (A.S. Barnes & Co. 1854).<\/p>\n

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Balfour, L., Picturing American Democracy: Tocqueville, Morrison, and the \u201cThree Races,\u201d<\/em> in The Cambridge Companion to Democracy in America<\/u> 389-408 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022).<\/p>\n

Beasley, Edward James,\u00a0The Victorian Reinvention of Race: New Racisms and the Problem of Grouping in the Human Sciences<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Routledge, 2010).\u00a0Includes chapter on\u00a0Democracy in America<\/u><\/em>\u00a0and on Tocqueville’s Algerian writings discussing race. Also discusses Tocqueville’s reaction to Gobineau’s theories on race.<\/em><\/p>\n

Behnegar, Alice Parker,\u00a0Feminism and Liberalism: The Problem of Equality<\/u>\u00a0(Dissertation, University of Chicago, 1994). Includes chapters on Tocqueville and Hobbes.<\/p>\n

Beloff, Max,\u00a0Tocqueville & Gobineau: On Race, Revolution and Despair<\/em>, 67(1)\u00a0Encounter<\/u>\u00a029-31 (1986).<\/p>\n

Boesche, Roger,\u00a0The Prison: Tocqueville’s Model For Despotism<\/em>, 33(4)\u00a0Western Political Quarterly<\/u>\u00a0550-563 (1980).<\/p>\n

Bonetto, Gerald M.,\u00a0Tocqueville and American Slavery<\/em>, 15(2)\u00a0Canadian Review of American Studies<\/u>\u00a0123-139 (1984).<\/p>\n

Boryczka, Jocelyn M.,\u00a0The Separate Spheres Paradox: Habitual Inattention and Democratic Citizenship,\u00a0<\/em>in\u00a0Feminist Interpretations of Alexis de Tocqueville<\/u>\u00a0281 (Jill Locke and Eileen Hunt Botting eds.; University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 2008)(Re-reading the Canon).<\/p>\n

Botting, Eileen Hunt,\u00a0A Family Resemblance: Tocqueville and Wollstonecraftian Protofeminism,\u00a0<\/em>in\u00a0Feminist Interpretations of Alexis de Tocqueville<\/u>\u00a099 (Jill Locke and Eileen Hunt Botting eds.; University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 2008)(Re-reading the Canon).<\/p>\n

Bourbon-Busset, J. de,\u00a0Sur Tocqueville et Gobineau,<\/em>\u00a0in\u00a0La Table Ronde<\/u>, January 1948, (no paging available).<\/p>\n

Boyd, Richard,\u00a0Imperial Fathers and Favorite Sons: J. S. Mill, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Nineteenth Century Visions of Empire,\u00a0<\/em>in\u00a0Feminist Interpretations of Alexis de Tocqueville<\/u>\u00a0225 (Jill Locke and Eileen Hunt Botting eds.; University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 2008)(Re-reading the Canon).<\/p>\n

Cabanas Enriquez, Miguel Angel, American Eyes: Negotiation and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Travel Narratives in the Americas (Dissertation, University of Connecticut, 2000).<\/p>\n

Carey, Christine,\u00a0Annotated Bibliography,\u00a0<\/em>in\u00a0Feminist Interpretations of Alexis de Tocqueville<\/u>\u00a0337 (Jill Locke and Eileen Hunt Botting eds.; University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 2008)(Re-reading the Canon).\u00a0Materials useful to a study of Tocqueville’s thought on women and gender.<\/em><\/p>\n

Carlson, David Jeffrey,\u00a0Institutions of Self: Law, Colonialism, and Autobiography in Nineteenth-Century America<\/u>\u00a0(Dissertation, Indiana University, 2000).<\/p>\n

Ceaser, James,\u00a0Reconstructing America<\/u>\u00a0(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997). Includes discussion of the Tocqueville-Gobineau debate.<\/p>\n

Colwell, James L.,\u00a0“The Calamities Which They Apprehend”: Tocqueville on Race in America<\/em>, 21\u00a0Western Humanities Review<\/u>\u00a093-100 (1967).<\/p>\n

Crouthamel, James L.,\u00a0Tocqueville’s South<\/em>, 2(4)\u00a0Journal of the Early Republic<\/u>\u00a0381-401 (1982).<\/p>\n

Cruikshank, Barbara,\u00a0Tocqueville\u2019s Authority: Feminism and Reform \u201cBetween Government and Civil Society,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>in\u00a0Feminist Interpretations of Alexis de Tocqueville<\/u>\u00a0305 (Jill Locke and Eileen Hunt Botting eds.; University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 2008)(Re-reading the Canon).<\/p>\n

Dahl, Adam,\u00a0Tocqueville’s Cultural Racism<\/a>, Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Portland, Oregon, March 22, 2012.<\/p>\n

Diani, Marco,\u00a0Baudrillard\u2019s Explorations of Tocqueville\u2019s America: Wandering in Hyperdemocracy,<\/em>\u00a0in\u00a0Issues in Travel Writing: Empire, Spectacle, and Displacement<\/u>\u00a0123-134 (Kristi Siegel, ed.; NY: Peter Lang, 2002).<\/p>\n

Dion, Stephane,\u00a0Durham et Tocqueville sur la colonisation liberale<\/em>, 25(1)\u00a0Journal of Canadian Studies\/Revue d’\u00c9tudes Canadiennes<\/u>\u00a060-77 (Spring 1990).<\/p>\n

Europe, revue mensuelle; numero consacr\u00e9 au comte de Gobineau …<\/u>\u00a0(Paris: F. Rieder, 1923). Originally published as 9\u00a0Europe<\/u>\u00a0Issue 1, October 1923. Includes R. Rolland, Le conflit de deux generations: Tocqueville et Gobineau.<\/p>\n

Fanuzzi, Robert,\u00a0Taste, Manners, and Miscegenation: French Racial Politics in the US,<\/em>\u00a019(3)\u00a0American Literary History<\/u>\u00a0573-602 (Fall 2007).\u00a0Thought of Tocqueville, de Beaumont, Jacques-Pierre Brissot.<\/em><\/p>\n

Feminist Interpretations of Alexis de Tocqueville<\/u>\u00a0(Jill Locke and Eileen Hunt Botting eds.; University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 2008)(Re-reading the Canon).<\/p>\n

Fritz, Harry W.,\u00a0Racism and Democracy in Tocqueville’s America,<\/em>\u00a013(3)\u00a0The Social Sciene Journal<\/u>\u00a065-76 (October 1976).<\/p>\n

Galdieri, Christopher J.,\u00a0Alexis de Tocqueville\u2019s\u00a0Democracy in America<\/u>\u00a0and the American Enterprise,<\/em>\u00a042(1)\u00a0Extrapolation\u00a0<\/u>65-74 (Spring 2001).<\/p>\n

Gensler, William George,\u00a0Alexis de Tocqueville and the condition of equality<\/u>\u00a0(Master’s thesis, Canisius College, 1963).<\/p>\n

Gershman, Sally,\u00a0Alexis de Tocqueville and Slavery,\u00a0<\/em>9\u00a0French Historical Studies<\/u>\u00a0467-483 (Spring 1976).<\/p>\n

Gniazdowski, Andrzej,\u00a0Wolno\u015b\u0107 ras. O debacie Tocqueville\u2014Gobineau<\/em>, 72\u00a0Przegl\u0105d Polityczny<\/u>\u00a0122-131 (2005).\u00a0English translation: Freedom of races. On the debate between Tocqueville and Gobineau.<\/em><\/p>\n

Goldstein, Leslie Friedman,\u00a0Europe Looks at American Women, 1820-1840<\/em>, 54(3)\u00a0Social Research<\/u>\u00a0519-542 (1987).<\/p>\n

Hereth, Michael,\u00a0Tocqueville : De l’abolition de l’escavage \u00e0 la colonisation de l’Alg\u00e9rie,<\/em>\u00a0in\u00a0Abenteuer des Geistes: Dimensionen des Politischen, Festschrift f\u00fcr Walter Rothholz<\/u>\u00a0(Baden Baden, Nomos Verlag, 2008).<\/p>\n

Ikuta, Jennie C., and Trevor Latimer, Aristocracy in America: Tocqueville on White Supremacy,<\/em> 83 The Journal of Politics 547-559 (2021).<\/p>\n

Janara, Laura Alecto,\u00a0Brothers and Others: Tocqueville and Beaumont, U.S. Genealogy, Democracy, and Racism,\u00a0<\/em>\u00a032(6)\u00a0Political Theory<\/u>\u00a0773-800 (December 2004).<\/p>\n

Janara, Laura Alecto,\u00a0Democracy\u2019s Family Values,\u00a0<\/em>in\u00a0Feminist Interpretations of Alexis de Tocqueville<\/u>\u00a047 (Jill Locke and Eileen Hunt Botting eds.; University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 2008)(Re-reading the Canon).<\/p>\n

Kennedy, Randall,\u00a0Tocqueville and Racial Conflict in America: A Comment,<\/em>\u00a011\u00a0Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal<\/u>\u00a0145-153 (Spring 1994).<\/p>\n

Kerber, Linda K.,\u00a0Separate spheres, female worlds, woman’s place: The rhetoric of women’s history<\/em>, 75(1)\u00a0Journal of American History<\/u>\u00a09-39 (June 1988). Some discussion of Tocqueville’s observation of the female role in early American society.<\/p>\n

Keslassy, Eric,\u00a0Le liberalisme de Tocqueville \u00e0 l’epreuve du pauperisme<\/u>\u00a0(Paris: Harmattan, 2000)(L\u2019ouverture philosophique).<\/p>\n

Kohn, Margaret,\u00a0Empire’s Law: Alexis de Tocqueville on Colonialism and the State of Exception,<\/em>\u00a041\u00a0Canadian Journal of Political Science\u00a0255 (2008).<\/p>\n

Kohn, Margaret,\u00a0The Other America: Tocqueville and Beaumont on Race and Slavery,<\/em>\u00a035(2)\u00a0Polity\u00a0169-193 (Winter 2002).<\/p>\n

Lawler, Peter Augustine,\u00a0Tocqueville on slavery, ancient and modern<\/em>, 80(4)\u00a0South Atlantic Quarterly<\/u>\u00a0466-477 (1981).<\/p>\n

Liebersohn, Harry,\u00a0Discovering Indigenous Nobility: Tocqueville, Chamisso and Romantic Travel Writing,<\/em>\u00a099(3)\u00a0American Historical\u00a0<\/u>Review 746-766 (1994).<\/p>\n

Lindqvist, Sven,\u00a0The three races of America: Alexis de Tocqueville<\/em>, in\u00a0The skull measurer’s mistake: and other portraits of men and women who spoke out against racism<\/u>\u00a0(NY: New Press, dist. W. W. Norton, 1997).<\/p>\n

Locke, Jill,\u00a0Aristocratic Mourning: Tocqueville, John Quincy Adams, and the Affairs of Andrew Jackson, \u00a0<\/em>in\u00a0Feminist Interpretations of Alexis de Tocqueville<\/u>\u00a0125 (Jill Locke and Eileen Hunt Botting eds.; University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 2008)(Re-reading the Canon).<\/p>\n

Locke, Jill, and Eileen Hunt Botting,\u00a0Introduction: To Tocqueville and Beyond,<\/em>\u00a0in\u00a0Feminist Interpretations of Alexis de Tocqueville<\/u>\u00a01 (Jill Locke and Eileen Hunt Botting eds.; University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 2008)(Re-reading the Canon).<\/p>\n

Mancini, Matthew,\u00a0Political Economy and Cultural Theory in Tocqueville’s Abolitionism<\/em>, 10(2)\u00a0Slavery & Abolition<\/u>\u00a0151-171 (1989).<\/p>\n

Mathie, William,\u00a0God, Woman, and Morality: The Democratic Family in the New Political Science of Alexis de Tocqueville<\/em>, 57(1)\u00a0Review of Politics<\/u>\u00a07 (1995).<\/p>\n

Matsumoto, Reiji,\u00a0Tocqueville on the Family<\/em>, 8\u00a0Tocqueville Review<\/u>\u00a0127-152 (1986\/1987).<\/p>\n

May, Gita,\u00a0Tocqueville on the Role of Women in a Democracy<\/em>, in\u00a0Voltaire, the Enlightenment and the Comic Mode: Essays in Honor of Jean Sareil<\/u>\u00a0159 (Maxine G. Cutler ed., NY: Peter Lang, 1990).<\/p>\n

McNamara, Carol L.,\u00a0Tocqueville’s Individualism and the Problem of Women and Men in Tom Wolfe’s America,<\/em>\u00a0APSA 2009 Toronto Meeting Paper.<\/a><\/p>\n

Mojtahedit, Hamid Reza,\u00a0The Oriental “Other” in the Writings of Montesquieu, Tocqueville and J. S. Mill: A Comparative Study<\/u>\u00a0(Dissertation, University of Western Ontario, 1996).<\/p>\n

Montjoye, Douglas,\u00a0Zwischen humanit\u00e4rem Engagement und Frankreichs nationaler\u00a0<\/u>Gr\u00f6\u00dfe: Alexis de\u00a0Tocqueville\u00a0(1805-1859) als Verteidiger der Indianer und Bef\u00fcrworter der Unterwerfung Algeriens<\/u>\u00a0(Master’s thesis, University of Vienna, 1999).<\/p>\n

Morimoto, Shauna A.,\u00a0Naturalizing Gender Inequality: An Examination of Tocqueville and Participatory Politics<\/u>\u00a0(Master\u2019s thesis, University of Wisconsin, 2002).<\/p>\n

Morton, Frederick L.,\u00a0Sexual Equality and the Family in Tocqueville’s\u00a0Democracy in America<\/u><\/em>, 17(2)\u00a0Canadian Journal of Political Science<\/u>\u00a0309-324 (1984).<\/p>\n

Nesbitt, Nick,\u00a0On the Political Efficacy of Idealism: Tocqueville, Schoelcher, and the Abolition of Slavery,<\/em> in\u00a0America Through European Eyes: British and French Reflections on the New World\u00a0<\/em>From the EIghteenth Century to the Present<\/span> (Aurelian Craiutu and Jeffrey C. Isaac, eds., Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009) at 91.<\/p>\n

Nimtz, August H.,\u00a0Marx, Tocqueville and Race in America: The “Absolute Democracy” or “Defiled Republic”<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003).<\/p>\n

Onfray, Michel, Tocqueville et les\u00a0Indiens, n\u00e8gres, ouvriers, Arabes et autres hors-la-loi (Autrement, 2017).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Reddinger, William Troy,\u00a0Why Family Matters Most: Montesquieu and Tocqueville on the Political Significance of the Family<\/u>\u00a0(Master’s thesis, Northern Illinois University, 2005).<\/p>\n

Resh, Richard,\u00a0Alexis de Tocqueville and the Negro:\u00a0Democracy in America<\/u>\u00a0Reconsidered,<\/em>\u00a048\u00a0Journal of Negro History<\/u>\u00a0251-259 (October 1963).<\/p>\n

Richardson, William D.,\u00a0The Possibility of Harmony Between the Races: An Inquiry Into the Thought of Jefferson, Tocqueville, Lincoln and Melville<\/u>\u00a0(Dissertation, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1979).<\/p>\n

Richter, Melvin,\u00a0Debate on Race: Tocqueville-Gobineau Correspondence,<\/em>\u00a025\u00a0Commentary<\/u>\u00a0151-160 (February 1958).<\/p>\n

Schaub, Diana,\u00a0On Slavery: Beaumont’s\u00a0Marie<\/u>\u00a0and Tocqueville’s\u00a0Democracy in America<\/u>,\u00a0<\/em>22(4)\u00a0Legal Studies Forum<\/u>\u00a0607-627 (1998).<\/p>\n

Spiegler, Jonathan, Hope for the Future: Tocqueville on Racism, Fatalism, and Democracy,<\/em> 14 American Political Thought 23-46 (Winter 2025).<\/p>\n

Stanley, John L.,\u00a0Majority Tyranny in Tocqueville\u2019s America: The Failure of Negro Suffrage in 1846,<\/em>\u00a084(3) Political Science Quarterly 412-435 (September 1969).<\/p>\n

Staudinger, Alison,\u00a0Constituting American Women: Tocqueville, Montesquieu, and the Making of Commercial Mores<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the WPSA Annual Meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, March 19, 2009.<\/p>\n

Stokes, Curtis,\u00a0Tocqueville and the Problem of Racial Inequality<\/em>, 75(1\/2)\u00a0Journal of Negro History<\/u>\u00a01-15 (1990).<\/p>\n

Street, Ella,\u00a0Tocqueville’s Savages,<\/em> 40 The Tocqueville Review\/La Revue Tocqueville 131-161 (2019).<\/p>\n

Strong, Robert A.,\u00a0Alexis de Tocqueville and the Abolition of Slavery<\/em>, 8(2)\u00a0Slavery & Abolition<\/u>\u00a0204-215 (1987).<\/p>\n

Sullivan, Kathleen S.,\u00a0Toward a Generative Theory of Equality,\u00a0<\/em>in\u00a0Feminist Interpretations of Alexis de Tocqueville<\/u>\u00a0199 (Jill Locke and Eileen Hunt Botting eds.; University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 2008)(Re-reading the Canon).<\/p>\n

Taslitz, Andrew,\u00a0How Important Should History Be To Resolving Fourth Amendment Questions, and How Good a Job Does the Supreme Court Do In Construing History?: The Happy Fourth Amendment: History and the People’s Quest For Constitutional Meaning,<\/em>\u00a043\u00a0Texas Tech Law Rev.<\/u>\u00a0137 (Fall 2010).<\/p>\n

Teale, Tamara M.,\u00a0The Liberty-Genocide Paradox: American Indians in European and American Travel Literature, 1795 to 1991<\/u>\u00a0(Dissertation, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1996).<\/p>\n

Teale, Tamara M.,\u00a0Tocqueville and American Indian Legal Studies: The Paradox of Liberty and Destruction, <\/em>17 The Tocqueville Review 57-66 (1996).<\/p>\n

Thiem, Jon,\u00a0The American Woman in The Coming Race (1871): Bulwer-Lytton’s Fictional Rebuttal to Tocqueville<\/em>, in\u00a0Portrayal of America in Various Literatures<\/u>\u00a019-28 (Wolodymyr T. Zyla, Carl Hammer and Frances Collmar Hernandez Jr., eds., 1978)(Interdepartmental Committee on Comparative Literatures. Monograph Series; 1). get pub. info.<\/p>\n

Thiem, Jon,\u00a0The American Woman in\u00a0The Coming Race<\/u>\u00a0(1871): Bulwer-Lytton’s Fictional Rebuttal to Tocqueville<\/em>, in\u00a0Portrayal of America in Various Literatures<\/u>\u00a0(Wolodymyr T., Zyla, Carl Hammer, and Frances Collmer Hernandez Jr., Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 1978).<\/p>\n

Tillery, Alvin B., Jr.,\u00a0Tocqueville as Critical Race Theorist: Whiteness as Property, Interest Convergence, and the Limits of Jacksonian Democracy,<\/em>\u00a062(4)\u00a0Political Research Quarterly<\/u>\u00a0639-652 (December 2009).<\/p>\n

Tracz-Tryniecki, Marek,\u00a0Human \u00a0Dignity versus Greatness: Tocqueville\u2019s Dilemma,<\/em>\u00a0in\u00a0Tocquevillian Ideas: \u00a0Contemporary European Perspectives<\/u>\u00a0111-134 (Zbigniew Rau and Marek Tracz-Tryniecki eds.; Lanham: University Press of America, 2014).<\/p>\n

Tracz-Tryniecki, Marek,\u00a0Tocqueville i kwestia algierska<\/em>, 103\/104\u00a0Przegl\u0105d Polityczny<\/u>\u00a0195-203 (2010).\u00a0English translation of the title: Tocqueville and the Algerian question.<\/em><\/p>\n

Turner, Jack,\u00a0American Individualism and Structural Injustice: Tocqueville, Gender, and Race,<\/em>\u00a040(2)\u00a0Polity<\/u>\u00a0197-215 (April 2008).<\/p>\n

Verge, Francine,\u00a0La Critique de l’egalit\u00e9 chez Tocqueville<\/u>\u00a0(Paris: 1981)(Memoire DEA: Philosophie du droit: Paris 2, 1981: Sess. Mars).<\/p>\n

Verge, Francine,\u00a0Le Th\u00e8me de la famille et de la femme chez Tocqueville<\/u>\u00a0(Paris: Universit\u00e9 de Paris, 1979)(Memoire DEA: \u00c9tudes politiques: Paris II; 1979: sess. de fev.).<\/p>\n

Vetter, Lisa Pace,\u00a0Sympathy, Equality, and Consent: Tocqueville and Harriet Martineau on Women and Democracy in America,\u00a0<\/em>in\u00a0Feminist Interpretations of Alexis de Tocqueville<\/u>\u00a0151 (Jill Locke and Eileen Hunt Botting eds.; University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 2008)(Re-reading the Canon).<\/p>\n

Villa, Dana,\u00a0Tocqueville and the Feminization of the Bourgeoisie,\u00a0<\/em>in\u00a0Feminist Interpretations of Alexis de Tocqueville<\/u>\u00a071 (Jill Locke and Eileen Hunt Botting eds.; University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 2008)(Re-reading the Canon).<\/p>\n

Viotti, Paul R., Jr.,\u00a0Who Cares About Inequality? Liberalism and Distributive Justice in America<\/u>\u00a0(University of California, Santa Cruz, 2008).<\/p>\n

Welch, Cheryl B,\u00a0Beyond the Bon M\u00e9nage: Tocqueville and the Paradox of Liberal Citoyennes,\u00a0<\/em>in\u00a0Feminist Interpretations of Alexis de Tocqueville<\/u>\u00a019 (Jill Locke and Eileen Hunt Botting eds.; University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 2008)(Re-reading the Canon).<\/p>\n

Welch, Cheryl B.,\u00a0Colonial Violence and the Rhetoric of Evasion: Tocqueville on Algeria,<\/em>\u00a031(2)\u00a0Political Theory<\/u>\u00a0235-264 (April 2003).Includes discussion of his thought on imperialism.<\/em><\/p>\n

Westfall, W.,\u00a0Tocqueville, Emerson and the Abolitionists<\/em>, 19(1)\u00a0Journal of Thought<\/u>\u00a056-63 (1984).<\/p>\n

Winthrop, Delba,\u00a0Tocqueville\u2019s American Woman and The True Conception of \u00a0Democratic Progress,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>in\u00a0Feminist Interpretations of Alexis de Tocqueville<\/u>\u00a0177 (Jill Locke and Eileen Hunt Botting eds.; University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 2008)(Re-reading the Canon).<\/p>\n

Winthrop, Delba,\u00a0Tocqueville’s American Woman and “the True Conception of Democratic Progress”<\/em>, 14(2)\u00a0Political Theory<\/u>\u00a0239-261 (1986).<\/p>\n

Wolfson, Dorothea Israel,\u00a0The superiority of the American woman: Tocqueville’s teaching on women, marriage and the family<\/u>\u00a0(Dissertation, Cornell University, 1995).<\/p>\n

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