This Is not Dixie

Racist Violence in Kansas, 1861-1927

Brent M.S. Campney (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

296 Seiten

2015
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-03950-8 (ISBN)

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Often defined as a mostly southern phenomenon, racist violence existed everywhere. Brent Campney explodes the notion of the Midwest as a so-called land of freedom with an in-depth study of assaults both active and threatened faced by African Americans in post "Civil War Kansas." Campney's capacious definition of white-on-black violence encompasses not only sensational demonstrations of white power like lynchings and race riots, but acts of threatened violence and the varied forms of pervasive routine violence--property damage, rape, forcible ejection from towns--used to intimidate African Americans. As he shows, such methods were a cornerstone of efforts to impose and maintain white supremacy. Yet Campney's broad consideration of racist violence also lends new insights into the ways people resisted threats. African Americans spontaneously hid fugitives and defused lynch mobs while using newspapers and civil rights groups to lay the groundwork for forms of institutionalized opposition that could fight racist violence through the courts and via public opinion. Ambitious and provocative, This Is Not Dixie rewrites fundamental narratives on mob action, race relations, African American resistance, and racism's grim past in the heartland.

Brent M. S. Campney is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.8.2015
Zusatzinfo	6 maps
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	567 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-252-03950-5 / 0252039505
ISBN-13	978-0-252-03950-8 / 9780252039508
Zustand	Neuware