Chocolate City (eBook)

A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital

Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove (Autoren)

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2017
624 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-3587-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's capital. Emblematic of the ongoing tensions between America's expansive democratic promises and its enduring racial realities, Washington often has served as a national battleground for contentious issues, including slavery, segregation, civil rights, the drug war, and gentrification. But D.C. is more than just a seat of government, and authors Chris Myers Asch and George Derek Musgrove also highlight the city's rich history of local activism as Washingtonians of all races have struggled to make their voices heard in an undemocratic city where residents lack full political rights.Tracing D.C.'s massive transformations--from a sparsely inhabited plantation society into a diverse metropolis, from a center of the slave trade to the nation's first black-majority city, from "e;Chocolate City"e; to "e;Latte City--Asch and Musgrove offer an engaging narrative peppered with unforgettable characters, a history of deep racial division but also one of hope, resilience, and interracial cooperation.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.10.2017
• Zusatzinfo: 25 halftones, 1 map, 7 tables, notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: abolitionism in D.C. • Adrian Fenty • African American History • Barack Obama in D.C. • black power in D.C. • Charles Hamilton Houston • civil rights in D.C. • Civil War in D.C. • colonization in D.C. • crack epidemic in D.C. • D.C. NAACP • Democracy • emancipation in D.C. • Francis Scott Key • Frederick Douglass • Great Depression in D.C. • interracial movements • Jim Crow in D.C. • Julius Hobson • Marion Barry • Mary Church Terrell • Michelle Rhee • race and Woodrow Wilson • Race in Washington, D.C. • Race relations • race riots in D.C. • Reconstruction in D.C. • segregation in D.C. • segregation in the federal government • Self-determination • slavery in D.C. • southern history • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) • Urban History • urban violence in D.C. • World War II in D.C. • World War I in D.C.
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-3587-9 / 1469635879
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-3587-3 / 9781469635873