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Hostile Heartland : Racism, Repression, and Resistance in the Midwest /
We forget that racist violence permeated the lower Midwest from the pre-Civil War period until the 1930s. From Kansas to Ohio, whites orchestrated extraordinary events like lynchings and riots while engaged in a spectrum of brutal acts made all the more horrific by being routine. Also forgotten is t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2019
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The antebellum Old Northwest : "for the white man, and the white man only"
- Illinois and the legacy of antebellum racist violence : "the peculiar climate of this region"
- Indiana during Reconstruction : "this negro elephant is getting to be a pretty large sized animal"
- Black families and resistance in Kansas, 1880-1905 : "there is nothing like reputation"
- Missouri's Little Dixie, 1899-1921 : "they flog a negro up there every week"
- The Missouri Ozarks and beyond, 1894-1930 : "whence all negroes have been driven forth"
- The Old Northwest, 1890s-1930s : "if we do our duty no mob can ever get into this jail"
- The Midwest in the late lynching period : "a queer precipitate of the old and the new."