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Hostile heartland : racism, repression, and resistance in the Midwest /
Racist violence permeated the lower Midwest from the pre-Civil War period until the 1930s. From Kansas to Ohio, whites orchestrated extraordinary events like lynchings and riots while engaged in a spectrum of brutal acts made all the more horrific by being routine. Also forgotten is the fact African...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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[Place of publication not identified] :
University of Illinois Press,
[2019]
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- The Antebellum Old Northwest : "For the white man, and the white man only"
- Illinois and the Legacy of Antebellum Racist Violence : "The peculiar climate of this region"
- Indiana during Reconstruction : "This negro elephant is getting to be a pretty large sized animal"
- Black Families and Resistance in Kansas, 1880-1905 : "There is nothing like reputation"
- Missouri's Little Dixie, 1899-1921 : "They flog a negro up there every week"
- The Missouri Ozarks and Beyond, 1894-1930 : "Whence all negroes have been driven forth"
- The Old Northwest, 1890s-1930s : "If we do our duty no mob can ever get into this jail"
- The Midwest in the Late Lynching Period : "A queer precipitate of the old and the new."