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

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"A City Divided traces the development of white Kansas Citians' perceptions of race and examines the ways in which those perceptions shaped both the physical landscape of the city and the manner in which Kansas City was policed and governed. Because of rapid changes in land use and difficu...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Schirmer, Sherry Lamb, 1947-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2002.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Geschichte 1900-1960.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Race relations
Social conditions
Rassenbeziehung.
Geschichte.
Ethnische Beziehungen
Kansas City (Mo.) > Race relations.
Kansas City (Mo.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Missouri > Kansas City
USA.
Kansas City.
Kansas City, Kan.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 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. 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.

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