Human Rights, Slavery and Race Relations
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Behnegar, Alice Parker, Feminism and Liberalism: The Problem of Equality (Dissertation, University of Chicago, 1994). Includes chapters on Tocqueville and Hobbes.
Beloff, Max, Tocqueville & Gobineau: On Race, Revolution and Despair, 67(1) Encounter 29-31 (1986).
Boesche, Roger, The Prison: Tocqueville's Model For Despotism, 33(4) Western Political Quarterly 550-563 (1980).
Bonetto, Gerald M., Tocqueville and American Slavery, 15(2) Canadian Review of American Studies 123-139 (1984).
Bourbon-Busset, J. de, Sur Tocqueville et Gobineau, in La Table Ronde, January 1948, (no paging available).
Ceaser, James, Reconstructing America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997). Includes discussion of the Tocqueville-Gobineau debate.
Colwell, James L., "The Calamities Which They Apprehend": Tocqueville on Race in America, 21 Western Humanities Review 93-100 (1967).
Crouthamel, James L., Tocqueville's South, 2(4) Journal of the Early Republic 381-401 (1982).
Diani, Marco, Baudrillard’s Explorations of Tocqueville’s America: Wandering in Hyperdemocracy, in Issues in Travel Writing: Empire, Spectacle, and Displacement 123-134 (Kristi Siegel, ed.; NY: Peter Lang, 2002).
Dion, Stephane, Durham et Tocqueville sur la colonisation liberale, 25(1) Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d'Études Canadiennes 60-77 (Spring 1990).
Europe, revue mensuelle; numero consacré au comte de Gobineau ... (Paris: F. Rieder, 1923). Originally published as 9 Europe Issue 1, October 1923. Includes R. Rolland, Le conflit de deux generations: Tocqueville et Gobineau.
Fanuzzi, Robert, Taste, Manners, and Miscegenation: French Racial Politics in the US, 19(3) American Literary History 573-602 (Fall 2007). Thought of Tocqueville, de Beaumont, Jacques-Pierre Brissot.
Fritz, Harry W., Racism and Democracy in Tocqueville's America, 13(3) The Social Sciene Journal 65-76 (October 1976).
Galdieri, Christopher J., Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America and the American Enterprise, 42(1) Extrapolation 65-74 (Spring 2001).
Gensler, William George, Alexis de Tocqueville and the condition of equality (Master's thesis, Canisius College, 1963).
Goldstein, Leslie Friedman, Europe Looks at American Women, 1820-1840, 54(3) Social Research 519-542 (1987).
Kennedy, Randall, Tocqueville and Racial Conflict in America: A Comment, 11 Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal 145-153 (Spring 1994).
Kerber, Linda K., Separate spheres, female worlds, woman's place: The rhetoric of women's history, 75(1) Journal of American History 9-39 (June 1988). Some discussion of Tocqueville's observation of the female role in early American society.
Keslassy, Eric, Le liberalisme de Tocqueville à l'epreuve du pauperisme (Paris: Harmattan, 2000)(L’ouverture philosophique).
Lawler, Peter Augustine, Tocqueville on slavery, ancient and modern, 80(4) South Atlantic Quarterly 466-477 (1981).
Liebersohn, Harry, Discovering Indigenous Nobility: Tocqueville, Chamisso and Romantic Travel Writing, 99(3) American Historical Review 746-766 (1994).
Lindqvist, Sven, The three races of America: Alexis de Tocqueville, in The skull measurer's mistake: and other portraits of men and women who spoke out against racism (NY: New Press, dist. W. W. Norton, 1997).
Mancini, Matthew, Political Economy and Cultural Theory in Tocqueville's Abolitionism, 10(2) Slavery & Abolition 151-171 (1989).
Mathie, William, God, Woman, and Morality: The Democratic Family in the New Political Science of Alexis de Tocqueville, 57(1) Review of Politics 7 (1995).
Matsumoto, Reiji, Tocqueville on the Family, 8 Tocqueville Review 127-152 (1986/1987).
May, Gita, Tocqueville on the Role of Women in a Democracy, in Voltaire, the Enlightenment and the Comic Mode: Essays in Honor of Jean Sareil 159 (Maxine G. Cutler ed., NY: Peter Lang, 1990).
Mojtahedit, Hamid Reza, The Oriental "Other" in the Writings of Montesquieu, Tocqueville and J. S. Mill: A Comparative Study (Dissertation, University of Western Ontario, 1996).
Morimoto, Shauna A., Naturalizing Gender Inequality: An Examination of Tocqueville and Participatory Politics (Master’s thesis, University of Wisconsin, 2002).
Morton, Frederick L., Sexual Equality and the Family in Tocqueville's Democracy in America, 17(2) Canadian Journal of Political Science 309-324 (1984).
Nimtz, August H., Marx, Tocqueville and Race in America: The "Absolute Democracy" or "Defiled Republic" (NY: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003).
Richardson, William D., The Possibility of Harmony Between the Races: An Inquiry Into the Thought of Jefferson, Tocqueville, Lincoln and Melville (Dissertation, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1979).
Stokes, Curtis, Tocqueville and the Problem of Racial Inequality, 75(1/2) Journal of Negro History 1-15 (1990).
Strong, Robert A., Alexis de Tocqueville and the Abolition of Slavery, 8(2) Slavery & Abolition 204-215 (1987).
Teale, Tamara M., The Liberty-Genocide Paradox: American Indians in European and American Travel Literature, 1795 to 1991 (Dissertation, StateUniversity of New York, Stony Brook, 1996).
Thiem, Jon, The American Woman in The Coming Race (1871): Bulwer-Lytton's Fictional Rebuttal to Tocqueville, in Portrayal of America in Various Literatures 19-28 (Wolodymyr T. Zyla, Carl Hammer and Frances Collmar Hernandez Jr., eds., 1978)(Interdepartmental Committee on Comparative Literatures. Monograph Series; 1). get pub. info.
Thiem, Jon, The American Woman in The Coming Race (1871): Bulwer-Lytton's Fictional Rebuttal to Tocqueville, in Portrayal of America in Various Literatures (Wolodymyr T., Zyla, Carl Hammer, and Frances Collmer Hernandez Jr., Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 1978).
Verge, Francine, La Critique de l'egalité chez Tocqueville (Paris: 1981)(Memoire DEA: Philosophie du droit: Paris 2, 1981: Sess. Mars).
Verge, Francine, Le Thème de la famille et de la femme chez Tocqueville (Paris: Université de Paris, 1979)(Memoire DEA: Études politiques: Paris II; 1979: sess. de fev.).
Welch, Cheryl B., Colonial Violence and the Rhetoric of Evasion: Tocqueville on Algeria, 31(2) Political Theory 235-264 (April 2003).Includes discussion of his thought on imperialism.
Westfall, W., Tocqueville, Emerson and the Abolitionists, 19(1) Journal of Thought 56-63 (1984).
Winthrop, Delba, Tocqueville's American Woman and "the True Conception of Democratic Progress", 14(2) Political Theory 239-261 (1986).
Wolfson, Dorothea Israel, The superiority of the American woman: Tocqueville's teaching on women, marriage and the family (Dissertation, Cornell University, 1995).
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