To render invisible : Jim Crow and public life in New South Jacksonville / Robert Cassanello.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Cassanello, Robert.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• African Americans--Florida--Jacksonville--History.
• African Americans--Civil rights--Florida--Jacksonville--History.
• Racism--Florida--Jacksonville--History.
• Racism.
• History.
• African Americans--Civil rights.
• African Americans.
• Jacksonville (Fla.)--Race relations.
• Florida--Jacksonville.

Physical Description:

xv, 188 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2013]

Summary:

An examination into the nature of social spaces that takes Jacksonville during Reconstruction as a case study investigating the struggles and limitations of its black and white working classes.

Contents:

• Introduction: the color-line and the public sphere
• Re-ordered spaces
• Democratized space
• The mob-public
• The black counterpublic emerges
• Representations of private spaces
• Representations of public spaces
• Labor's counterpublic
• Women's counterpublic
• Conclusion: the black counterpublic comes of age
• Epilogue: making the invisible visible.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9780813044194
• 0813044197

OCLC:

806013187