Before Jim Crow The Politics of Race in Postemancipation Virginia

Name: Before Jim Crow The Politics of Race in Postemancipation Virginia
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ISBN: 9780807849019

ISBN-10: 0807849014

ISBN-13: 9780807849019

Edition: 2000

Authors: Jane Dailey

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Long before the Montgomery bus boycott ushered in the modern civil rights movement, black and white southerners struggled to forge interracial democracy in America. This innovative book examines the most successful interracial coalition in the nineteenth-century South, Virginia's Readjuster Party, and uncovers a surprising degree of fluidity in postemancipation southern politics. Melding social, cultural, and political history, Jane Dailey chronicles the Readjusters' efforts to foster political cooperation across the color line. She demonstrates that the power of racial rhetoric, and the divisiveness of racial politics, derived from the everyday experiences of individual Virginiansfrom…

Book details

List price: $37.50
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 12/18/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 292
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.66" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Origins of the Readjuster Movement



Expanding the Circle of Honor: The Politics of Patronage



Drawing the Line between Public and Private: Sex, Schools, and Liberalism



Deference and Violence in Danville



Making Black White and White Black: The Politics of Racial Identity


Epilogue: The Voice of the People


Notes


Bibliography


Index