This Is Not Dixie : Racist Violence in Kansas, 1861-1927 /

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Often defined as a mostly southern phenomenon, racist violence existed everywhere. Brent M.S. Campney explodes the notion of the Midwest as a so-called land of freedom with an in-depth study of assaults both active and threatened faced by African Americans in post Civil War Kansas. Campney's ca...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Campney, Brent M. S.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social Sciences.
Gender & Ethnic Studies.
Ethnic & Race Studies.
Racism.
Race relations.
African Americans.
African Americans > Violence against.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Noirs americains > Kansas > Histoire.
Racisme > Kansas > Histoire.
African Americans > Kansas > History.
Racism > Kansas > History.
African Americans > Violence against > Kansas > History.
Kansas.
Kansas > Relations raciales > Histoire.
Kansas > Race relations > History.
History.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Often defined as a mostly southern phenomenon, racist violence existed everywhere. Brent M.S. Campney explodes the notion of the Midwest as a so-called land of freedom with an in-depth study of assaults both active and threatened faced by African Americans in post Civil War Kansas. Campney's capacious definition of white-on-black violence encompasses not only sensational demonstrations of white power like lynchings and race riots, but acts of threatened violence and the varied forms of pervasive routine violence - property damage, rape, forcible ejection from towns - used to intimidate African Americans. As he shows, such methods were a cornerstone of efforts to impose and maintain white supremacy. Yet Campney's broad consideration of racist violence also lends new insights into the ways people resisted threats.
Physical Description:1 online resource (296 pages).
ISBN:9780252097614

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