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Race to the Frontier [electronic resource] : ""White Flight" and Western Expansion
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dippel, John.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Migrations--History--United States.
- Frontier and pioneer life--History--West (U.S.).
- White people--United States.
- White people.
- Racism--United States.
- Racism.
- Local Subjects:
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (350 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Algora Publishing, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Race relations were an important driving force in the move to settle the West, as the political records and personal accounts show. Race to the Frontier provides an analysis of this little-discussed but essential facet of American history. Why did so many
- Contents:
- "White Flight"; and Westward Expansion; and Westward Expansion; John V. H. Dippel; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; Introduction; I. White Negroes in the Tidewater; II. Running for the Virginia Hills; III. Bluegrass, Black Dominance; IV. White Flight Across the Ohio; V. Holding the Color Line in the Old Northwest; VI. Racial Strife Crosses the Mississippi; VII. The Politics of Exclusion; VIII. Manifest Necessity; Epilogue; Selected Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-39558-7
- 9786611395582
- 0-87586-424-4
- 0-87586-423-6
- OCLC:
- 476114317
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