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All eyes are upon us : race and politics from Boston to Brooklyn /
"From the 19th century, when northern cities were home to strong abolitionist communities and served as a counterpoint to the slaveholding South, through the first half of the 20th century, when the North became a destination for African Americans fleeing Jim Crow, the Northeastern United State...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group,
[2014]
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Northern Mystique
- Part I. North of Jim Crow. 1. And to Think That It Happened in Springfield: Pioneering Pluralism, Practicing Segregation (1939-1945)
- 2. Something in the Air: Jackie Robinson's Brooklyn (1947-1957)
- 3. "If We Were Segregationists": The Struggle to Integrate Northeastern Schools (1957-1965)
- Part II: Forerunners. 4. The Color-Blind Commonwealth? The Election of Edward Brooke (1966)
- 5. Shirley Chisholm's Place : Winning New York's 12th Congressional District (1968)
- Part III: Mirrors. 6. "The North is Guilty": Abraham Ribicoff's Crusade (1970)
- 7. "This Bedeviling Busing Business": The Long 1970s, the Trials of Edward Brooke, and the Fall of the North (1968-1979)
- Part IV: The Death and Life of the North. 8. A Tale of Two Hartfords: Politics and Poverty in a Land of Plenty (1980-1987)
- 9. The Ghost of Willie Turks: Racial Violence and Black Politics in New York City (1982-1993)
- 10. The North Rises Again: Deval Patrick, Barack Obama, and the Twenty-First Century (2006-2012).