| Before Jim Crow: The Politics of Race in Postemancipation Virginia Contributor(s): Dailey, Jane (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807849014 ISBN-13: 9780807849019 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press OUR PRICE: $35.63 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2000 Annotation: This innovative book examines the most successful interracial coalition in the nineteenth-century South, Virginia's Readjuster Party, and uncovers a surprising degree of fluidity in postemancipation southern politics. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Political Science | American Government - State - Social Science | Discrimination & Race Relations |
| Dewey: 324 |
| LCCN: 00057723 |
| Series: Gender and American Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.00 lbs) 292 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Geographic Orientation - Virginia - Cultural Region - South Atlantic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Long before the Montgomery bus boycott ushered in the modern civil rights movement, black and white southerners struggled to forge interracial democracy in America. This innovative book examines the most successful interracial coalition in the nineteenth-century South, Virginia's Readjuster Party, and uncovers a surprising degree of fluidity in postemancipation southern politics. Melding social, cultural, and political history, Jane Dailey chronicles the Readjusters' efforts to foster political cooperation across the color line. She demonstrates that the power of racial rhetoric, and the divisiveness of racial politics, derived from the everyday experiences of individual Virginians--from their local encounters on the sidewalk, before the magistrate's bench, in the schoolroom. In the process, she reveals the power of black and white southerners to both create and resist new systems of racial discrimination. The story of the Readjusters shows how hard white southerners had to work to establish racial domination after emancipation, and how passionately black southerners fought each and every infringement of their rights as Americans. |
Contributor Bio(s): Dailey, Jane: - Jane Dailey, associate professor of history at The Johns Hopkins University, is coeditor of Jumpin' Jim Crow: Southern Politics from Civil War to Civil Rights. |