Threatening Property Race, Class, and Campaigns to Legislate Jim Crow Neighborhoods

Elizabeth A. Herbin-Triant investigates early-twentieth-century campaigns for residential segregation laws in North Carolina to show how the version of white supremacy supported by middle-class white people differed from that supported by elites. Class divides halted Jim Crow from mandating separate neighborhoods for black and white southerners.

About the author

Elizabeth A. Herbin-Triant is an associate professor of Black Studies and of History at Amherst College.

Summary

Elizabeth A. Herbin-Triant investigates early-twentieth-century campaigns for residential segregation laws in North Carolina to show how the version of white supremacy supported by middle-class white people differed from that supported by elites. Class divides halted Jim Crow from mandating separate neighborhoods for black and white southerners.

Additional text

This highly readable book should be of interest to many disciplines (urban sociology, geography, history, city planning) and to many lay readers as well.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth A. Herbin-Triant
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 31.05.2019
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
• EAN: 9780231189705
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18970-5
• Pages: 352
• Series: Columbia Studies in the Histor; Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism; Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism; Columbia Studies in the Histor
• Subjects: North Carolina, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Economic history, History of the Americas, History and Archaeology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, HISTORY / African American & Black