North of the Color Line

Migration and Black Resistance in Canada, 1870-1955

Sarah-Jane Mathieu (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

296 Seiten

2010 | New edition
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
9780807871669 (ISBN)

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North of the Color Line examines life in Canada for the estimated 5,000 blacks, both African Americans and West Indians, who immigrated to Canada after the end of Reconstruction in the United States. Through the experiences of black railway workers and their union, the Order of Sleeping Car Porters, Sarah-Jane Mathieu connects social, political, labor, immigration, and black diaspora history during the Jim Crow era. By World War I, sleeping car portering had become the exclusive province of black men. White railwaymen protested the presence of the black workers and insisted on a segregated workforce. Using the firsthand accounts of former sleeping car porters, Mathieu shows that porters often found themselves leading racial uplift organizations, galvanizing their communities, and becoming the bedrock of civil rights activism. Examining the spread of segregation laws and practices in Canada, whose citizens often imagined themselves as devoid of racism, Mathieu historicizes Canada's racial history, and explores how black migrants brought their own sensibilities about race to Canada, participating in and changing political discourse there.

Sarah-Jane Mathieu is assistant professor of history at the University of Minnesota.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.11.2010
Reihe/Serie	The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
Verlagsort	Chapel Hill
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 231 mm
Gewicht	440 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9780807871669 / 9780807871669
Zustand	Neuware