When did southern segregation begin : readings / selected and introduced by John David Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, John David, 1949-

Series:

Historians at work

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Segregation--United States--History.

Segregation.

History.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

xii, 175 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Pelgrave ; New York : Bedford/St. Martin's, [2002]

Summary:

When did southern segregation begin? Students often assume that segregation was a natural outcome of Reconstruction. Even scholars cannot agree on which events at the end of the 19th century mark the beginning of American Apartheid. Each of the 6 selections in this volume addresses the question of segregation's origins, and amid the debate over "when" segregation began, revelations also emerge as to "where" and "how" it became the norm for relations between blacks and whites. Concentrating on the "antebellum" antecedents of segregation, the surprising fluidity of racial interaction in the postwar South, the relation between segregation and white supremacist doctrine, and the diversity of segregation practices among the states, the selections together demonstrate the evolution of southern segregation from a diverse array of local practices to a rigid, pervasive, legally-sanctioned system of racial apartheid.

Contents:

Segregation and the Age of Jim Crow 3

From Slavery to Segregation 3

Historians and the Origins of Racial Segregation 28

Part 2 Some Current Questions 43

1. When did the South capitulate to segregation? From The Strange Career of Jim Crow / C. Vann Woodward 45

2. Was segregation the creation of custom or of law? "The Separation of the Races" / Joel Williamson 59

3. Why were the railroads the "contested terrain" of race relations in the postwar South? From The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction / Edward L. Ayers 85

4. What did segregation replace? "From Exclusion to Segregation: Southern Race Relations, 1865-1890" / Howard N. Rabinowitz 103

5. What role did gender play in railroad segregation? From "When All the Women Were White, and All the Blacks Were Men: Gender, Class, Race, and the Road to Plessy, 1855-1914" / Barbara Y. Welke 133

6. How did segregation enforce racial subordination? From Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow / Leon F. Litwack 153.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0312257384

0312237057

OCLC:

48567291