Race in the American South : : From Slavery to Civil Rights / / David Brown, Clive Webb.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Brown, David,; Webb, Clive,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (392 p.)

The issue of race has indelibly shaped the history of the United States. Nowhere has the drama of race relations been more powerfully staged than in the American South. This book charts 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 revolution of the twentieth century.While the history of race in the southern states has been shaped by a basic struggle between black and white, the authors show how other forces such as class and gender have complicated the colour line. They distinguish clearly between ideas about race, mostly written and disseminated by intellectuals and politicians, and their reception by ordinary southerners, both black and white. As a result, readers are presented with a broad, over-arching view of race in the American South throughout its chequered history.Key Featuresracial issues are the key area of interest for those who study the American Southrace is the driving engine of Southern historyunique in its focus on racebroad coverage - origins of the plantation system to the situation in the South today

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- List of Maps -- Introduction -- 1. Red, White and Black? Native Americans, Europeans and Africans Meet in the Chesapeake -- 2. Systematising Slavery: The Making of the Plantation System in the Eighteenth Century -- 3. Slavery, Race and the American Revolution -- 4. A White Man’s Republic in the Antebellum South -- 5. The Paradoxical Institution: Antebellum Slavery -- 6. A Fragile Freedom: The Civil War and the Collapse of Slavery -- 7. ‘The White Supreme’: Race Relations in the Jim Crow South -- 8. A World of Their Own: Black Culture and Resistance -- 9. The Challenge of Reform: The South in the Era of the World Wars -- 10. Moderates and Militants: The Struggle for the White South -- 11. ‘We Shall Overcome’: The Civil Rights Movement -- 12. A Dream Unfulfilled: Race in the Contemporary South -- Conclusion -- Chronology -- Guide to Further Reading -- Index