Managing white supremacy : race, politics, and citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Smith, J. Douglas, 1965- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [2002]
Series:UNC Press law publications.
Civil rights and social justice.
Subjects:
1865-1999
White people > Virginia > Politics and government > 20th century.
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.
Élite (Sciences sociales) > Virginie > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Noirs américains > Droits > Virginie > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Noirs américains > Ségrégation > Virginie > Histoire > 20e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
African Americans > Civil rights
African Americans > Segregation
Citizenship
Elite (Social sciences)
Politics and government
Race relations
Race relations > Political aspects
White people > Politics and government
Rassenverhoudingen.
Politieke aspecten.
Virginia > Race relations.
Virginia > Race relations > Political aspects.
Virginia > Politics and government > 1865-1950.
Virginie > Relations raciales.
Virginie > Relations raciales > Aspect politique.
Virginie > Politique et gouvernement > 1865-1950.
Virginia
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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