A city divided : the racial landscape of Kansas City, 1900-1960 / / Sherry Lamb Schirmer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910816510303321
• Autore: Schirmer Sherry Lamb <1947->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2002
• ISBN: 0-8262-6363-1
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (271 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.8/0097708/41109041
• Soggetti: Kansas City (Mo.) Race relations; Kansas City (Mo.) Social conditions 20th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-251) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Introduction : With Race in Mind -- 1. Social Status and the Control of Urban Space -- 2. Setting Boundaries: The Emergence of Jim Crow, 1900-1920 -- 3. The Webwork of Race, Status, and Gender, 1900-1920 -- 4. Racial Geography: Partitioning Kansas City in the 1920s -- 5. Under Quarantine: The Social Meaning of Race in the 1920s -- 6. Magician's Tricks: Black Activism and White Response, 1920-1940 -- 7. "Truth Is Fatal": The Civil Rights Activists, Black and White -- 8. Expedient Fears: Leadership and the Politics of Denial, 1950-1958 -- Bibliography -- Index.