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Managing White Supremacy: Race, Politics, and Citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780807854242)
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xTracing 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, and the equitable distribution of municipal resources.
This acceleration of black resistance to white supremacy in the years before World War II precipitated a crisis of confidence among white Virginians, who, despite their overwhelming electoral dominance, felt increasingly insecure about their ability to manage the color line on their own terms. Exploring the everyday power struggles that accompanied the erosion of white authority in the political, economic, and educational arenas, Smith uncovers the seeds of white Virginians' resistance to civil rights activism in the second half of the twentieth century.
Author: J. Douglas Smith
ISBN-10: 0807854247
ISBN-13: 9780807854242
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Language: English
Published: 12/09/2002
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.39lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.12w x 0.99d
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, and the equitable distribution of municipal resources.
This acceleration of black resistance to white supremacy in the years before World War II precipitated a crisis of confidence among white Virginians, who, despite their overwhelming electoral dominance, felt increasingly insecure about their ability to manage the color line on their own terms. Exploring the everyday power struggles that accompanied the erosion of white authority in the political, economic, and educational arenas, Smith uncovers the seeds of white Virginians' resistance to civil rights activism in the second half of the twentieth century.
Author: J. Douglas Smith
ISBN-10: 0807854247
ISBN-13: 9780807854242
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Language: English
Published: 12/09/2002
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.39lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.12w x 0.99d
By J. Douglas Smith
xJ. Douglas Smith is a visiting assistant professor of history at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California.
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