The color line : a short introduction / David Lyons.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lyons, David, 1935- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social history.

United States--Race relations--History.

United States.

United States--Ethnic relations--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (151 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

NEW YORK : ROUTLEDGE, 2019.

Summary:

The Color Line provides a concise history of the role of race and ethnicity in the US, from the early colonial period to the present, to reveal the public policies and private actions that have enabled racial subordination and the actors who have fought against it. Focusing on Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, and Latino Americans, it explores how racial subordination developed in the region, how it has been resisted and opposed, and how it has been sustained through independence, the abolition of slavery, the civil rights movement, and subsequent reforms. The text also considers the position of European immigrants to the US, interrogates relevant moral issues, and identifies persistent problems of public policy, arguing that all four centuries of racial subordination are relevant to understanding contemporary America and some of its most urgent issues. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of American history, the history of race and ethnicity, and other related courses in the humanities and social sciences.

Contents:

The Color Line

Pre-contact North America and European Colonization

Early Virginia

A Slave System is Established

Beyond Virginia

The Founding

King Cotton

More Land and Labor

Sectional Conflicts and the Color Line

Civil War and Reconstruction

Redemption and Jim Crow

Western Indians

Closing the Door

An American Empire

The Great Migration

Surviving and Defying Jim Crow

The Second Reconstruction

The Civil Rights Movement

Black Separatism, Armed Self-Defense and Urban Disorders

The Wider Civil Rights Movement

End of the Second Reconstruction

The Persistence of the Color Line

Where Do We Go From Here - and How Do We Get There?

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-301417-8

1-000-02311-7

1-000-01380-4

1-003-01417-8

9781003014171

OCLC:

1129192070