The fluid boundaries of suffrage and Jim Crow : staking claims in the American heartland / edited by DaMaris B. Hill.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hill, DaMaris B., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Social conditions.

United States--Race relations--History--20th century.

United States.

Race relations.

History.

African Americans--Social conditions--20th century.

African Americans.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

vii, 140 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2016]

Summary:

The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow: Staking Claims in the American Heartland engages in an important conversation about race relations in the twentieth century and significantly extends the historical narrative of the Civil Rights Movement. The essays in this collection examine instances of racial and gender oppression in the American heartland-which is conceived of here as having a specific cultural significance which resists diversity-in the twentieth century, instances which have often been ignored or overshadowed in typical historical narratives. The contributors explore the intersections of suffrage, race relations, and cultural histories, and add to an ongoing dialogue about representations of race and gender within the context of regional and national narratives. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction / DaMaris B. Hill

Excerpt from Delaware diaspora: memoir of my Delaware grandfather / Denise Low-Weso

From Mexican to Mexican-American in Kansas City, 1914-1940 / Valerie Mendoza

Singing and swinging in the heartland: Black women musicians making music in the midwest during the jazz age / Tammy L. Kernodle

Negotiating the middle border: ambivalent rhetorics of White anti-racism in 1920s Kansas / Jason Barrett-Fox

No place like home: Chicago's Black metropolis and the Johnson Publishing offices, 1942-1975 / James West

From Vivi with love: studying the great migration / Chamara J. Kwakye

Conclusion / DaMaris B. Hill.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Fluid boundaries of suffrage and Jim Crow.

ISBN:

9780739197875

0739197878

OCLC:

934746424