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The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North Segregation and Struggle outside of the South / edited by Brian Purnell and Jeanne Theoharis, with Komozi Woodard
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Racism.
- Race relations.
- Civil rights movements.
- African Americans--Segregation.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- Racism--United States--History--20th century.
- African Americans--Segregation--History--20th century.
- African Americans.
- Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.
- African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.
- West United States.
- United States.
- Northeastern States.
- Middle West.
- West (U.S.)--Race relations--History--20th century.
- West (U.S.).
- Middle West--Race relations--History--20th century.
- Northeastern States--Race relations--History--20th century.
- United States--Race relations--History--20th century.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : New York University Press, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Did American racism originate in the liberal North? An inquiry into the system of institutionalized racism created by Northern Jim Crow Jim Crow was not a regional sickness, it was a national cancer. Even at the high point of twentieth century liberalism in the North, Jim Crow racism hid in plain sight. Perpetuated by colorblind arguments about "cultures of poverty," policies focused more on black criminality than black equality. Procedures that diverted resources in education, housing, and jobs away from poor black people turned ghettos and prisons into social pandemics. Americans in the North made this history. They tried to unmake it, too. Liberalism, rather than lighting the way to vanquish the darkness of the Jim Crow North gave racism new and complex places to hide. The twelve original essays in this anthology unveil Jim Crow's many strange careers in the North. They accomplish two goals: first, they show how the Jim Crow North worked as a system to maintain social, economic, and political inequality in the nation's most liberal places; and second, they chronicle how activists worked to undo the legal, economic, and social inequities born of Northern Jim Crow policies, practices, and ideas. The book ultimately dispels the myth that the South was the birthplace of American racism, and presents a compelling argument that American racism actually originated in the North.
- "The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North explores the topics of racism and segregation"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- A murder in Central Park: racial violence and the crime wave in New York during the 1930s and 1940s / Shannon King
- "In the 'fabled land of make-believe'": Charlotta Bass and Jim Crow Los Angeles / John S. Portlock
- Black women as activist intellectuals: Ella Baker and Mae Mallory combat Northern Jim Crow in New York City's public schools during the 1950s / Kristopher Bryan Burrell
- Brown girl, red lines, and brownstones: Paule Marshall's Brown girl, brownstones, and the Jim Crow North / Balthazar Ishmael Beckett
- "Let those negroes have their whiskey": white backtalk and Jim Crow discourse in the era of black rebellion / Laura Warren Hill
- The fight for fair housing on Chicago's North Shore / Mary Barr
- "You are running a de facto segregated university": racial segregation and City University of New York, 1961-1968 / Tahir H. Butt
- A forgotten community, a forgotten history: San Francisco's 1966 urban uprising / Aliyah Dunn-Salahuddin
- "The shame of our whole judicial system": George Crockett, the "New Bethel incident" and the nation's Jim Crow judiciary / Say Burgin
- "We've been behind the scenes": Project Equality and fair employment in 1970s Milwaukee / Crystal Marie Moten
- The media and H. Rap Brown: friend or foe of Jim Crow? / Peter B. Levy
- Stalled in the movement: the Black Panther Party in Night catches us / Ayesha K. Hardison.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4798-5431-X
- OCLC:
- 1089804783
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