Sorting Out the New South City Race, Class, and Urban Development in Charlotte, 1875-1975

Name: Sorting Out the New South City Race, Class, and Urban Development in Charlotte, 1875-1975
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ISBN: 9780807846773

ISBN-10: 0807846775

ISBN-13: 9780807846773

Edition: 1998

Authors: Thomas W. Hanchett

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One of the largest and fastest-growing cities in the South, Charlotte, North Carolina, came of age in the New South decades of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, transforming itself from a rural courthouse village to the trading and financial hub of America's premier textile manufacturing region. In this book, Thomas Hanchett traces the city's spatial evolution over the course of a century, exploring the interplay of national trends and local forces that shaped Charlotte, and, by extension, other New South urban centers. Hanchett argues that racial and economic segregation are not age-old givens, but products of a decades-long process. Well after the Civil War, Charlotte's…

Book details

List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 8/10/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 404
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Preindustrial City


Bring the Mills to the Cotton! Chapter 2 --New South Promoter D. A. Tompkins Habiliments of Progress



Insolence



Creating Blue-Collar Neighborhoods



Creating Black Neighborhoods



Creating White-Collar Neighborhoods



Downtown in the 1900s-1920s



The Limits of Local Government



The Federal City


Afterword


Notes


Bibliography


Index