Jim Crow citizenship : liberalism and the Southern defense of racial hierarchy / Marek D. Steedman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steedman, Marek D.

Contributor:

Class of 1932 Fund.

Series:

Routledge series on identity politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race--Political aspects.

History.

Race.

Liberalism.

Citizenship.

African Americans--Suffrage.

Southern States--Politics and government--1865-1950.

Southern States.

Politics and government.

African Americans--Suffrage--Southern States--History.

African Americans.

Citizenship--Southern States--History.

Liberalism--Southern States--History.

Race--Political aspects--Southern States--History.

Southern States--Race relations--History.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

xi, 200 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2012.

Summary:

Steedman (political science, U. of Southern Mississippi) analyzes the connections between liberalism, republicanism, wage-labor and racial hierarchy in America between 1865 and 1920, though he also reaches back into the antebellum period. He argues that changes in this period account for intersecting forms of civil subordination that persist in American society. To do this, he examines the fusion of slavery and household paternalism, the "crisis of mastery" in the reconstruction era and how it resolved in favor of the employing-class, the tension between race and contractually-based relations, the consolidation of white supremacy by southern white progressives and the recasting of black southerners as a dependent child-race. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Introduction

Familial relations: dependents-by-nature and the antebellum household

Dead votes: reconstructing citizenship and dependence

New beings: race and the foundations of free government

Wards of the nation: the progressive tutelage of the races

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

ISBN:

0415890535

9780415890533

9780203829479

0203829476

OCLC:

663951890

Publisher Number:

99946135451