Managing White Supremacy Race, Politics, and Citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia

Name: Managing White Supremacy Race, Politics, and Citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia
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ISBN: 9780807854242

ISBN-10: 0807854247

ISBN-13: 9780807854242

Edition: 2002

Authors: J. Douglas Smith

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Tracing the erosion of white elite paternalism in Jim Crow Virginia, Douglas Smith reveals a surprising fluidity in southern racial politics in the decades between World War I and the Supreme Court's 1954Brown v. Board of Educationdecision. Smith draws on official records, private correspondence, and letters to newspapers from otherwise anonymous Virginians to capture a wide and varied range of black and white voices. African Americans emerge as central characters in the narrative, as Smith chronicles their efforts to obtain access to public schools and libraries, protection under the law, and the equitable distribution of municipal resources. This acceleration of black resistance to white…

Book details

List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 12/9/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.95" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction. Separation by Consent



A Fine Discrimination Indeed: Party Politics and White Supremacy from Emancipation to World War I



Opportunities Found and Lost: Race and Politics after World War I



Redefining Race: The Campaign for Racial Purity



Educating Citizens or Servants?: Hampton Institute and the Divided Mind of White Virginians



Little Tyrannies and Petty Skullduggeries



A Melancholy Distinction: Virginia's Response to Lynching



The Erosion of Paternalism: Confronting the Limits of Managed Race Relations



Traveling in Opposite Directions



Too Radical for Us: The Passing of Managed Race Relations


Epilogue. Toward the South of the Future


Notes


Bibliography


Index