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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154642203321

Autore

Goldberg David E.

Titolo

The retreats of Reconstruction : race, leisure, and the politics of segregation at the New Jersey shore, 1865-1920 / / David E. Goldberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

0-8232-7276-1

0-8232-7275-3

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (200 pages) : illustrations, map

Collana

Reconstructing America

Disciplina

305.8009749

Soggetti

African Americans - New Jersey - Atlantic Coast - History

Segregation - New Jersey - Atlantic Coast - History

Racism - New Jersey - Atlantic Coast - History

Atlantic Coast (N.J.) Race relations

Atlantic Coast (N.J.) History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

This edition previously issued in print: 2016.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Beginning in the 1880s, the economic realities and class dynamics of popular northern resort towns unsettled prevailing assumptions about political economy and threatened segregationist practices. Exploiting early class divisions, black working-class activists staged a series of successful protests that helped make northern leisure spaces a critical battleground in a larger debate about racial equality. While some scholars emphasise the triumph of black consumer activism with defeating segregation, Goldberg argues that the various consumer ideologies that first surfaced in northern leisure spaces during the Reconstruction era contained desegregation efforts and prolonged Jim Crow.