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When did southern segregation begin : readings

Smith, John David, 1949- (Added Author).

Summary: When did southern segregation begin? Students often assume that segregation was a natural outcome of Reconstruction. Even scholars cannot agree on which events at the end of the 19th century mark the beginning of American Apartheid. Each of the 6 selections in this volume addresses the question of segregation's origins, and amid the debate overwhen segregation began, revelations also emerge as to where and how it became the norm for relations between blacks and whites. Concentrating on the antebellum antecedents of segregation, the surprising fluidity of racial interaction in the postwar South, the relation between segregation and white supremacist doctrine, and the diversity of segregation practices among the states, the selections together demonstrate the evolution of southern segregation from a diverse array of local practices to a rigid, pervasive, legally-sanctioned system of racial apartheid. - Publisher.

Item details

ISBN: 0312257384
ISBN: 9780312257385
ISBN: 0312237057
ISBN: 9780312237059
Physical Description: print
xii, 175 pages ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's, 2002.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

pt. I. Introduction : Segregation and the age of Jim Crow -- pt. II. Some current questions : 1. When did the South capitulate to segregation / C. Vann Woodward -- 2. Was segregation the creation of custom or of law / Joel Williamson -- 3. Why were the railroads the contested terrain of race relations in the postwar South / Edward L. Ayers -- 4. What did segregation replace / Howard N. Robinowitz -- 5. What role did gender play in railroad segregation / Barbara Y. Welke -- 6. How did segregation enforce rural subordination / Leon F Litwack.