Land Was Ours (eBook)

How Black Beaches Became White Wealth in the Coastal South

Andrew W. Kahrl (Autor)

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2016
374 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-2873-8 (ISBN)

Infos

The coasts of today's American South feature luxury condominiums, resorts, and gated communities, yet just a century ago, a surprising amount of beachfront property in the Chesapeake, along the Carolina shores, and around the Gulf of Mexico was owned and populated by African Americans. Blending social and environmental history, Andrew W. Kahrl tells the story of African Americanowned beaches in the twentieth century. By reconstructing African American life along the coast, Kahrl demonstrates just how important these properties were for African American communities and leisure, as well as for economic empowerment, especially during the era of the Jim Crow South. However, in the wake of the civil rights movement and amid the growing prosperity of the Sunbelt, many African Americans fell victim to effective campaigns to dispossess black landowners of their properties and beaches.Kahrl makes a signal contribution to our understanding of African American landowners and real-estate developers, as well as the development of coastal capitalism along the southern seaboard, tying the creation of overdeveloped, unsustainable coastlines to the unmaking of black communities and cultures along the shore. The result is a skillful appraisal of the ambiguous legacy of racial progress in the Sunbelt.

Autor

Andrew W. Kahrl is assistant professor of history and African American studies at the University of Virginia.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.6.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 25 halftones, 14 maps, notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: African Americans • Army Corps of Engineers • Atlantic Coast • beaches and beachfront property • black Methodism and African American religion • black popular music and performance venues • business and entrepreneurship • Capitalism • Chesapeake Bay • class relations and stratification in black America • coastal environments and coastal engineering • drowning deaths • economic predation • Gulf of Mexico • Jim Crow and segregation • Land Tenure • leisure and recreation • Maryland • Mississippi • New Orleans, LA • North Carolina • Potomac River • Property Law • Property Ownership • public beaches and parks • racial terrorism • Racism • Real Estate Development • South Carolina • Southern States • vacation and tourism industries • Virginia • Washington, D.C.
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-2873-2 / 1469628732
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-2873-8 / 9781469628738