| The Retreats of Reconstruction: Race, Leisure, and the Politics of Segregation at the New Jersey Shore, 1865-1920 Contributor(s): Goldberg, David E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0823272710 ISBN-13: 9780823272716 Publisher: Fordham University Press OUR PRICE: $104.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | African American - History | United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic (dc, De, Md, Nj, Ny, Pa) - History | United States - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 305.800 |
| LCCN: 2016013980 |
| Series: Reconstructing America |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 9.1" (0.85 lbs) 200 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 - Topical - Black History - Geographic Orientation - New Jersey |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Beginning in the 1880s, the economic realities and class dynamics of popular northern resort towns unsettled prevailing assumptions about political economy and threatened segregationist practices. Exploiting early class divisions, black working-class activists staged a series of successful protests that helped make northern leisure spaces a critical battleground in a larger debate about racial equality. While some scholars emphasize the triumph of black consumer activism with defeating segregation, Goldberg argues that the various consumer ideologies that first surfaced in northern leisure spaces during the Reconstruction era contained desegregation efforts and prolonged Jim Crow. Combining intellectual, social, and cultural history, The Retreats of Reconstruction examines how these decisions helped popularize the doctrine of separate but equal and explains why the politics of consumption is critical to understanding the long civil rights movement. |
Contributor Bio(s): Goldberg, David E.: - David E. Goldberg teaches in the History Department at Drury University and is winner of the 2014 Alfred E. Driscoll award for Best Dissertation. He is a civil rights historian focused on race, consumerism, and the environment in the Jim Crow North. |