Covenant with Color Race and Social Power in Brooklyn

Name: Covenant with Color Race and Social Power in Brooklyn
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ISBN: 9780231119078

ISBN-10: 0231119070

ISBN-13: 9780231119078

Edition: 2000

Authors: Craig Steven Wilder

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Spanning three centuries of Brooklyn history from the colonial period to the present, A Covenant with Color exposes the intricate relations of dominance and subordination that have long characterized the relative social positions of white and black Brooklynites. Craig Steven Wilder -- examining both quantitative and qualitative evidence and utilizing cutting-edge literature on race theory -- demonstrates how ideas of race were born, how they evolved, and how they were carried forth into contemporary society. In charting the social history of one of the nation's oldest urban locales, Wilder contends that power relations -- in all their complexity -- are the starting point for understanding…

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List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 1/26/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.92" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Craig Steven Wilder is Associate Professor of History and Chair of African-American Studies at Williams College. He is the author of A Covenant with Color: Race and Social Power in Brooklyn.



Prologue: The Trial of Race



Race and Social Power: Slavery and the Evolution of an Idea, 1636-1827



Little Masters: Slavery and the Evolution of a City, 1636-1827



"Rugged Industries": The Commercial Revolution in Kings County, 1797-1876



Irish Over Black: The Advent of Bourgeois Democracy in Kings County, 1800-1865



Hope, Hate, and the Class Struggle: The End of Slavery's Dominion in the City of Churches, 1827-1865



The Legacy of Mastery: The Rise and Prestige of Jim Crow in Brooklyn, 1865-1930



Fruit of the Class Struggle: Labor Segmentation and Exclusion in Brooklyn, 1865-1950



The Covenant of Color: Race, Gender, and Defense Work in Brooklyn, 1930-1945



Vulnerable People, Undesirable Places: The New Deal and the Making of the Brooklyn Ghetto, 1920-1990



"A Society Such as Our Own": Education and Labor in the Brooklyn Ghetto, 1950-1990


Epilogue: A Fair Interpretation


Notes


Bibliography


Index