Threatening property : race, class, and campaigns to legislate Jim Crow neighborhoods / Elizabeth A. Herbin-Triant.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Herbin-Triant, Elizabeth A., author.

Series:

Columbia studies in the history of U.S. capitalism.

Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Segregation--North Carolina--History--20th century.

African Americans.

Discrimination in housing--North Carolina--History--20th century.

Discrimination in housing.

Social classes--North Carolina--History--20th century.

Social classes.

North Carolina--Race relations--History--20th century.

North Carolina.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2019]

Summary:

White supremacists determined what African Americans could do and where they could go in the Jim Crow South, but they were less successful in deciding where black people could live because different groups of white supremacists did not agree on the question of residential segregation. In Threatening Property, Elizabeth A. Herbin-Triant investigates early-twentieth-century campaigns for residential segregation laws in North Carolina to show how the version of white supremacy supported by middle-class white people differed from that supported by the elites. Class divides prevented Jim Crow from expanding to the extent that it would require separate neighborhoods for black and white southerners as in apartheid South Africa.Herbin-Triant details the backlash against the economic successes of African Americans among middle-class whites, who claimed that they wished to protect property values and so campaigned for residential segregation laws both in the city and the countryside, where their actions were modeled on South Africa's Natives Land Act. White elites blocked these efforts, primarily because it was against their financial interest to remove the black workers that they employed in their homes, farms, and factories. Herbin-Triant explores what the split over residential segregation laws reveals about competing versions of white supremacy and about the position of middling whites in a region dominated by elite planters and businessmen. An illuminating work of social and political history, Threatening Property puts class front and center in explaining conflict over the expansion of segregation laws into private property.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Middling Whites in Postbellum North Carolina

2. Fusion, Democrats, and the Scarecrow of Race

3. Inspirations for Residential Segregation

4. Separating Residences in the Camel City

5. Jim Crow for the Countryside

Conclusion: Planning for Residential Segregation After Buchanan

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780231548472

0231548478

OCLC:

1054266450