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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
David Brown; Clive Webb |
| ISBN: | 9780813032023 0813032024 9780813032030 0813032032 |
| OCLC Number: | 122701421 |
| Description: | vi, 392 p. : maps ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Red, white, and black? : Native Americans, Europeans and Africans meet in the Chesapeake -- Systematising slavery : the making of the plantation system in the eighteenth century -- Slavery, race, and the American Revolution -- A white man's republic in the antebellum south -- The paradoxical institution : antebellum slavery -- A fragile freedom : the Civil War and the collapse of slavery -- 'The white supreme' : race relations in the Jim Crow south -- A world of their own : black culture and resistance -- The challenge of reform : the south in the era of the world wars -- Moderates and militants : the struggle for the white south -- 'We shall overcome' : the Civil Rights Movement -- A dream fulfilled : race in the contemporary south. |
| Responsibility: | David Brown and Clive Webb. |
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Abstract:
"This is the first book to offer an over-arching view of the ways race has indelibly shaped the history of the United States. David Brown and Clive Webb trace the turbulent course of southern race relations from the colonial origins of the plantation system to the maturation of slavery in the nineteenth century, through the rise of a new racial order during the Civil War and Reconstruction, to the civil rights movement of the twentieth century. While the authors recognize the very different racial balances in different parts of the region, the divisions among southern whites, and the nonracial basis of many aspects of southern distinctiveness, they convincingly put forward the case that the driving engine of Southern history is the attempt to resolve the dilemmas posed by the racial issue. They focus on the omnipresent racial basis of the changes over time in the region's politics, economy, and social structure, as well as other main areas of study in American history, including culture, class, and gender." --Publisher.
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