Chocolate City : a history of race and democracy in the nation's capital /

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"Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's capital. Emblematic of the ongoing tensions between America's expansive democratic promises and its enduring racial realities, Washington often has...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Asch, Chris Myers (Author), Musgrove, George Derek, 1975- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Subjects:
African Americans > Washington (D.C.) > History.
Noirs américains > Washington (D.C.) > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
African Americans
Race relations
Washington (D.C.) > History.
Washington (D.C.) > Race relations.
Washington (D.C.) > Histoire.
Washington (D.C.)
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Always a Chocolate City
  • Your coming is not for trade, but to invade my people and possess my country: a native American world under siege, 1608-1790
  • Of slaving blacks and democratic whites: building a capital of slavery and freedom, 1790-1815
  • Our boastings of liberty and equality are mere mockeries: confronting contradictions in the nation's capital, 1815-1836
  • Slavery must die: the turbulent end to human bondage in Washington, 1836-1862
  • Emancipate, enfranchise, educate: freedom and the hope of interracial democracy, 1862-1869
  • Incapable of self-government: the retreat from democracy, 1869-1890
  • National show town: building a modern, prosperous, and segregated capital, 1890-1912
  • There is a new Negro to be reckoned with: segregation, war, and a new spirit of black militancy, 1912-1932
  • Washington is a giant awakened: community organizing in a booming city, 1932-1945
  • Segregation does not die gradually of itself: Jim Crow's collapse, 1945-1956
  • How long? How long?: mounting frustration within the black majority, 1956-1968
  • There's gonna be flames, there's gonna be fighting, there's gonna be rebellion!: the tumult and promise of Chocolate City, 1968-1978
  • Perfect for Washington: Marion Barry and the rise and fall of Chocolate City, 1979-1994
  • Go home rich white people: Washington becomes wealthier and whiter, 1995-2010
  • That must not be true of tomorrow: history, race, and democracy in a new moment of racial flux.

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