Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters - The Struggle Over Segregated Recreation in America

Victoria W. Wolcott is Professor of History at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, and the author of Remaking Respectability: African-American Women in Interwar Detroit.

List of contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. A Tarnished Golden Age: Race and Recreation Before World War II

Chapter 2. The Fifth Freedom: Racial Liberalism, Nonviolence, and Recreation Riots in the 1940s

Chapter 3. "A Northern City with a Southern Exposure": Challenging Recreational Segregation in the 1950s

Chapter 4. Violence in the City of Good Neighbors: Delinquency and Consumer Rights in the Postwar City

Chapter 5. Building a National Movement: Students Confront Recreational Segregation

Chapter 6. "Riotland": Race and the Decline of Urban Amusements

Conclusion

Notes

Index

Acknowledgments

About the author

Victoria W. Wolcott is Professor of History at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, and the author of Remaking Respectability: African-American Women in Interwar Detroit.

Summary

Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters tells the story of the battle for access to leisure space in cities across the United States. This detailed and eloquent history shows how African Americans fought to enter segregated amusement areas not only in pursuit of happiness but in connection to a wider movement for racial equality.

Product details

• Authors: Victoria W Wolcott, Victoria W. Wolcott
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.10.2014
• EAN: 9780812223286
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-2328-6
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Politics and Culture in Modern; Politics and Culture in Modern America; Politics and Culture in Modern America; Politics and Culture in Modern
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas