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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455526403321

Autore

Smith J. Douglas

Titolo

Managing white supremacy [[electronic resource] ] : race, politics, and citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia / / J. Douglas Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2002

ISBN

0-8078-6226-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (425 p.)

Disciplina

305.896/0730755/09042

Soggetti

White people - Virginia - Politics and government - 20th century

School integration - Massive resistance movement - Virginia

Elite (Social sciences) - Virginia - History - 20th century

African Americans - Civil rights - Virginia - History - 20th century

African Americans - Segregation - Virginia - History - 20th century

Citizenship - Virginia - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Virginia Race relations

Virginia Race relations Political aspects

Virginia Politics and government 1865-1950

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Based on author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Virginia.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-395) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : separation by consent -- A fine discrimination indeed : party politics and white supremacy from emancipation to world war -- Opportunities found and lost : race and politics after world war -- 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 -- Travelling in opposite directions -- Too radical for us : the passing of managed race relations -- Epilogue : the making of massive resistance.

Sommario/riassunto

Drawing on private correspondence and official documents, this text traces the erosion of white elite paternalism in Jim Crow Virginia. It reveals a fluidity in southern racial politics in the decades between



World War I and the supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision.