Chocolate City : a history of race and democracy in the nation's capital / Chris Myers Asch & George Derek Musgrove.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Asch, Chris Myers, author.

Musgrove, George Derek, 1975- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Washington (D.C.)--History.

African Americans.

Race relations.

History.

Washington (D.C.)--History.

Washington (D.C.).

Washington (D.C.)--Race relations.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 609 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]

Contents:

Always a Chocolate City

Your coming is not for trade, but to invade my people and possess my country: a native American world under siege, 1608-1790

Of slaving blacks and democratic whites: building a capital of slavery and freedom, 1790-1815

Our boastings of liberty and equality are mere mockeries: confronting contradictions in the nation's capital, 1815-1836

Slavery must die: the turbulent end to human bondage in Washington, 1836-1862

Emancipate, enfranchise, educate: freedom and the hope of interracial democracy, 1862-1869

Incapable of self-government: the retreat from democracy, 1869-1890

National show town: building a modern, prosperous, and segregated capital, 1890-1912

There is a new Negro to be reckoned with: segregation, war, and a new spirit of black militancy, 1912-1932

Washington is a giant awakened: community organizing in a booming city, 1932-1945

Segregation does not die gradually of itself: Jim Crow's collapse, 1945-1956

How long? How long?: mounting frustration within the black majority, 1956-1968

There's gonna be flames, there's gonna be fighting, there's gonna be rebellion!: the tumult and promise of Chocolate City, 1968-1978

Perfect for Washington: Marion Barry and the rise and fall of Chocolate City, 1979-1994

Go home rich white people: Washington becomes wealthier and whiter, 1995-2010

That must not be true of tomorrow: history, race, and democracy in a new moment of racial flux.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781469635866

1469635860

OCLC:

975982720