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Managing White Supremacy: Race, Politics, and Citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia
J. Douglas Smith
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paperback. Drawing on private correspondence and official documents, this text traces the erosion of white elite paternalism in Jim Crow Virginia. It reveals a fluidity in southern racial politics in the decades between World War I and the supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. Num Pages: 432 pages, 18 illustrations, 2 maps, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJPG; JFSL1; JHMP; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 630.
Black and white power struggles in segregated Virginia; Tracing the erosion of white elite paternalism in Jim Crow Virginia, Douglas Smith reveals a surprising fluidity in southern racial politics in the decades between World War I and the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. Smith draws on official records, private correspondence, and letters to newspapers from otherwise anonymous Virginians to capture a wide and varied range of black and white voices. African Americans emerge as central characters in the narrative, as Smith chronicles their efforts to obtain access to public schools and libraries, protection under the law, ... Read more
Black and white power struggles in segregated Virginia; Tracing the erosion of white elite paternalism in Jim Crow Virginia, Douglas Smith reveals a surprising fluidity in southern racial politics in the decades between World War I and the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. Smith draws on official records, private correspondence, and letters to newspapers from otherwise anonymous Virginians to capture a wide and varied range of black and white voices. African Americans emerge as central characters in the narrative, as Smith chronicles their efforts to obtain access to public schools and libraries, protection under the law, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807854242
SKU
V9780807854242
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About J. Douglas Smith
J. Douglas Smith is a visiting assistant professor of history at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California.
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