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Ghosts of Jim Crow : ending racism in post-racial America / F. Michael Higginbotham.
LIBRA E185.61 .H58 2013
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Higginbotham, F. Michael.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Civil rights--History.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- History.
- African Americans--Segregation--History.
- African Americans--Segregation.
- United States--Race relations.
- United States.
- Race relations.
- Racism--United States--History.
- Racism.
- Physical Description:
- x, 316 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2013]
- Contents:
- Creating the paradigm: racial hierarchy
- Constructing racial categories from the nation's founding to the Civil War
- Maintaining white dominance during Reconstruction
- Preventing black excellence between Plessy and Brown
- Sustaining the paradigm: white isolation and black separation and subordination
- Maintaining racial segregation in schools and neighborhoods from Brown to the 21st century
- Victimizing blacks in the 21st century
- Ending the paradigm: building a post-racial America
- Black empowerment and self-help
- Integration and equality.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814737477
- 0814737471
- OCLC:
- 805041799
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