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The crucible of race : Black-white relations in the American South since emancipation /
This landmark work provides a fundamental reinterpretation of the American South in the years since the Civil War, especially the decades after Reconstruction, from 1877 to 1920. Covering all aspects of Southern life--white and black, conservative and progressive, literary and political--it offers a...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1984.
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- Part one: Slavery and after, to 1889: The genesis of the organic society. Between two worlds ; The hard-soft period of slavery ; The organic society ; Black culture ; A fusion of cultures and colors
- Black life in the South, 1865-1915. Black reconstruction ; Disengagement and alienation ; The feudalization of Black life ; Nobody's Negro ; Charles W. Chesnutt - Variously Black ; Definition: Washington and Du Bois
- The conservative restoration and the liberal revolt. White reconstruction ; The liberal revolt--paternalism revisited ; Atticus Greene Haygood and churchly liberalism ; George Washington Cable and secular liberalism ; Critiquest of liberalism--New South and old ; Referendum on race ; The Open Letter Club ; Summation
- Part two: The rage of radicalism, 1889-1915: The rise of the radicals. Radical thinking ; Radical thinkers ; Rebecca Latimer Felton: thought and action ; Benjamin Ryan Tillman
- Thomas Dixon and The leopard's spots. The leopard's spots as the radical message ; Thomas Dixon, Jr., a biography ; Thomas Dixon's complaint ; Why Thomas Dixon wrote The leopard's spots and its sequels ; Other radical leaders
- In violence veritas. Popular radicalism ; Lynching ; Rioting ; The Wilmington Riot ; The Robert Charles Riot in New Orleans ; The causes of the Atlanta Riot ; The Atlanta Riot ; Aftermath
- Depoliticalization and the separation of the races. Disfranchisement ; Disfranchisement in Virginia ; Disfranchisement in Oklahoma and elsewhere
- The conservative response to radicalism. The Sledd case ; The Bassett case ; The alienation of the conservative activist ; The retreats of conservativism: education ; The retreats of conservativism: religion ; The retreats of conservativism: conclusion
- The crucible of race. The philosophical dichotomy ; The one-shot style of Southern leadership--with William J. Northen as an exception ; The grit thesis: a class interpretation of extreme racism ; Other radical-conservative dichotomies ; Why some leaders became radicals ; An unreal world: race and sex in the modern South ; The Bible Belt ; The central theme of Southern history ; Consequences
- Part three: The North and the Negro, 1889-1915: The North and the Negro in the South. Northern support of Black schools in the South ; Southern racial missionaries to the North ; Race and reunion ; The Northern capitulation to racism
- Northern Republicans and Southern race relations, 1895-1912. Hanna and McKinley discover separate and equal ; Theodore Roosevelt and Southern politics ; Taft and the Lily-White South ; The demise of Black Republicanism in the South
- Radical swan song : radicalism and conservatism in Washington under Woodrow Wilson. The Wilsonian racial solution ; Radical segregation in the Wilson Administration ; The Black reaction: The NAACP in the nation's capital ; The Black response in the nation at large ; Radicals vs. Conservatives within the Wilson Administration ; The Wilsonian racial settlement
- Part four: Soul folk: The souls of Black folk. Du Bois on Black soul ; Du Boisian thought as Hegelian ; How Du Bois became a Hegelian ; Du Boisian action as Hegelian
- White soul. Edgar Gardner Murphy as a prime spokesman for Volksgeistian conservativism ; Democracy and education in the New South ; The Industrial Revolution in the South: for whites only ; Old South idealism brought into the new ; The white communion ; The new orthodoxy
- Legacy: race relations in the Twentieth-Century South. The white South loses the Black problem ; The paranoid style in the the Twentieth-Century South ; The unreal South ; Southern white liberals in the Twentieth-Century ; The three faces of Eve ; Black breakout ; The conservative resurgence
- Conclusion: The great changeover : an interpretation of white culture and race relations in the American South.