Race in the American South [[electronic resource] ] : from slavery to civil rights / / David Brown and Clive Webb

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910819695003321
• Autore: Brown David <1968 Apr. 25->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2007
• ISBN: 1-280-95310-1; 9786610953103; 0-7486-2826-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (vi, 392 pages) : maps
• Altri autori (Persone): WebbClive <1970->
• Disciplina: 305.800975; 975
• Soggetti: Racism - Southern States - History; African Americans - Southern States - Social conditions; Slavery - Southern States - History; African Americans - Civil rights - Southern States - History; Civil rights movements - Southern States - History; Racism - United States - History; Southern States Race relations; United States Race relations
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [354]-374) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; MAPS; INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 RED, WHITE AND BLACK? NATIVE AMERICANS, EUROPEANS AND AFRICANS MEET IN THE CHESAPEAKE; Chapter 2 SYSTEMATISING SLAVERY: THE MAKING OF THE PLANTATION SYSTEM IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; Chapter 3 SLAVERY, RACE AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION; Chapter 4 A WHITE MAN'S REPUBLIC IN THE ANTEBELLUM SOUTH; Chapter 5 THE PARADOXICAL INSTITUTION: ANTEBELLUM SLAVERY; Chapter 6 A FRAGILE FREEDOM: THE CIVIL WAR AND THE COLLAPSE OF SLAVERY; Chapter 7 'THE WHITE SUPREME': RACE RELATIONS IN THE JIM CROW SOUTH; Chapter 8 A WORLD OF THEIR OWN: BLACK CULTURE AND RESISTANCEChapter 9 THE CHALLENGE OF REFORM: THE SOUTH IN THE ; ERA OF THE WORLD WARS; Chapter 10 MODERATES AND MILITANTS: THE STRUGGLE FOR THE WHITE SOUTH; Chapter 11 'WE SHALL OVERCOME': THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT; Chapter 12 A DREAM UNFULFILLED: RACE IN THE CONTEMPORARY SOUTH; CONCLUSION; CHRONOLOGY; GUIDE TO FURTHER READING; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: The issue of race has indelibly shaped the history of the United States. Nowhere has the drama of race relations been more powerfully staged than in the American South. This book charts the turbulent course of southern race relations from the colonial origins of the plantation system to the maturation of slavery in the nineteenth century, through the rise of a new racial order during the Civil War and Reconstruction, to the civil rights revolution of the twentieth century. While the history of race in the southern states has been shaped by a basic struggle between black and white, the authors