When Did Southern Segregation Begin?

Smith, John David

ISBN 10: 0312257384 / ISBN 13: 9780312257385

Published by Bedford/Saint Martin's, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: When Did Southern Segregation Begin?
• Publisher: Bedford/Saint Martin's
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312257384
• ISBN 13: 9780312257385
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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 six selections in this volume addresses the question of segregation's origins, and amid the debate over when 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.

About the Author

JOHN DAVID SMITH is Graduate Alumni Distinguished Professor of History and Director of M.A. Program in Public History at North Carolina State University. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books and in 1998-99 he served as the Fulbright Professor of American Studies at the Amerika Institut, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munich, Germany