Aristocracy of Color Race and Reconstruction in California and the West, 1850-1890

Name: Aristocracy of Color Race and Reconstruction in California and the West, 1850-1890
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ISBN: 9780806146492

ISBN-10: 0806146494

ISBN-13: 9780806146492

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Authors: D. Michael Bottoms

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In the South after the Civil War, the reassertion of white supremacy tended to pit white against black. In the West, by contrast, a radically different drama emerged, particularly in multiracial, multiethnic California. State elections in California to ratify Reconstruction-era amendments to the U.S. Constitution raised the question of whether extending suffrage to black Californians might also lead to the political participation of thousands of Chinese immigrants.As historian D. Michael Bottoms shows in An Aristocracy of Color, many white Californians saw in this and other Reconstruction legislation a threat to the fragile racial hierarchy they had imposed on the state's legal system…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Publication date: 9/15/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 292
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.66" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English