Black Boston - African American Life and Culture in Urban America, 1750-1860

Levesque's richly detailed study fills a significant void in our understanding. Black culture Levesque argues more and less than separation and integration. Poised between an occasionally frequently indifferent white world and their own community, black Americans were, in effect, suspended between two cultures.

List of contents

List of Tables/Maps Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: The Social Composition 1. "They Cannot Thrive Among Us" 2. "Sustained Very Evidently by Means of Emigration Part II: The Color Line 3. "Is Boston Anti-Slavery?" 4. "Complexional Distinctions" 5. "The Cause of Equal School Privileges" 6. "That Separate Schools May Be Abolished" 7. "Privileges and Immunities of Citizens" Part III: Life in the Ghetto 8. "Colored Churches. Is There Any Necessity for Their Existence?" 9. "Colored People Assuming A Position Independent of Their Pale-Face Brethren" Part IV: Pathology of the Ghetto 10. "Crime is Not All Owing to One Cause" 11. "No Other Class Struggles for a Livelihood Under So Many Disadvantages" 12. "Facts of a Deeply Deadly Nature" Conclusion Appendices Abbreviations Bibliography Index

About the author

Levesque, George

Summary

Levesque’s richly detailed study fills a significant void in our understanding. Black culture Levesque argues more and less than separation and integration. Poised between an occasionally frequently indifferent white world and their own community, black Americans were, in effect, suspended between two cultures.

Product details

• Authors: George Levesque
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.07.2019
• EAN: 9780815385578
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-8557-8
• No. of pages: 558
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Urban History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Ethnic Studies, History, Massachusetts, HISTORY / General, c 1500 onwards to present day, Social discrimination & inequality, History of the Americas, Slavery & abolition of slavery, History and Archaeology, Slavery and abolition of slavery, Social discrimination and social justice