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Managing white supremacy : race, politics, and citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia / J. Douglas Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, J. Douglas.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- White people--Virginia--Politics and government--20th century.
- White people.
- School integration--Massive resistance movement--Virginia.
- School integration.
- Elite (Social sciences)--Virginia--History--20th century.
- Elite (Social sciences).
- African Americans--Civil rights--Virginia--History--20th century.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Segregation--Virginia--History--20th century.
- Citizenship--Virginia--History--20th century.
- Citizenship.
- Virginia--Race relations.
- Virginia.
- Virginia--Race relations--Political aspects.
- Virginia--Politics and government--1865-1950.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (425 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Drawing on private correspondence and official documents, this text traces the erosion of white elite paternalism in Jim Crow Virginia. It reveals a fluidity in southern racial politics in the decades between World War I and the supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision.
- Contents:
- Introduction : separation by consent
- A fine discrimination indeed : party politics and white supremacy from emancipation to world war
- Opportunities found and lost : race and politics after world war
- Redefining race : the campaign for racial purity
- Educating citizens or servants? : Hampton Institute and the divided mind of white Virginians
- Little tyrannies and petty skullduggeries
- A melancholy distinction : Virginia's response to lynching
- The erosion of paternalism : confronting the limits of managed race relations
- Travelling in opposite directions
- Too radical for us : the passing of managed race relations
- Epilogue : the making of massive resistance.
- Notes:
- Based on author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Virginia.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-395) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798890872289
- 9780807862261
- 0807862266
- OCLC:
- 476237520
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