| Threatening Property: Race, Class, and Campaigns to Legislate Jim Crow Neighborhoods Contributor(s): Herbin-Triant, Elizabeth A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0231189710 ISBN-13: 9780231189712 Publisher: Columbia University Press OUR PRICE: $34.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Economic History - History | United States - 20th Century - Social Science | Discrimination & Race Relations |
| Dewey: 305.800 |
| LCCN: 2018044278 |
| Series: Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 9" (1.05 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Topical - Black History - Cultural Region - South |
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| Publisher Description: White supremacists determined what African Americans could do and where they could go in the Jim Crow South, but they were less successful in deciding where black people could live because different groups of white supremacists did not agree on the question of residential segregation. In Threatening Property, Elizabeth A. Herbin-Triant investigates early-twentieth-century campaigns for residential segregation laws in North Carolina to show how the version of white supremacy supported by middle-class white people differed from that supported by the elites. Class divides prevented Jim Crow from expanding to the extent that it would require separate neighborhoods for black and white southerners as in apartheid South Africa. Herbin-Triant details the backlash against the economic successes of African Americans among middle-class whites, who claimed that they wished to protect property values and so campaigned for residential segregation laws both in the city and the countryside, where their actions were modeled on South Africa's Natives Land Act. White elites blocked these efforts, primarily because it was against their financial interest to remove the black workers that they employed in their homes, farms, and factories. Herbin-Triant explores what the split over residential segregation laws reveals about competing versions of white supremacy and about the position of middling whites in a region dominated by elite planters and businessmen. An illuminating work of social and political history, Threatening Property puts class front and center in explaining conflict over the expansion of segregation laws into private property. |
Contributor Bio(s): Herbin-Triant, Elizabeth A.: - Elizabeth Herbin-Triant is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University, as a student of Eric Foner's. Her articles have appeared in The Journal of Southern History and Agricultural History. |
