ELUSIVE UTOPIA THE STRUGGLE FOR RACIAL EQUALITY IN OBERLIN OHIO
Language: English
Published by LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS, BATON ROGUE LA, 2018
Series: Book 23 of 25 - Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World
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INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHORS ON THE TITLE PAGE " TO KATHY AND DON WHO ALSO CARE ABOUT OBERLIN ! BEST CAROL + GARY BOOK IS AS NEW AND APPEARS UNREAD STATED FIRST PRINTING THE STORY OF OBERLIN OHIO , A MAJOR STOP ON THE UNDERGROUND RAILWAY AND ITS CHANGING ATTITUDES ON RACE RELATIONS FROM THE CIVIL WAR THROUGH THE 1920'S FOUNDED AS A UTOPIA, OBERLIN WAS A TEST CASE FOR INTERGRATION , PERHAPS THE FIRST JACKET IS BRIGHT AND COMPLETE A VERY NICE COPY.
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- Title
- ELUSIVE UTOPIA THE STRUGGLE FOR RACIAL EQUALITY IN OBERLIN OHIO
- Author
- KORNBLITH GARY LASSER CAROL
- Publisher
- LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS, BATON ROGUE LA
- Publication year
- 2018
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- Fine
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- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0807169560
- ISBN 13
- 9780807169568
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- PHOTOS
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Series
- Book 23 of 25: Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World
Founded as a utopian experiment in 1833, Oberlin embraced radical racial egalitarianism in its formative years. By the eve of the Civil War, when 20 percent of its local population was black, the community modeled progressive racial relations that, while imperfect, shone as strikingly more advanced than in either the American South or North. Emancipation and the passage of the Civil War amendments seemed to confirm Oberlin's egalitarian values. Yet, contrary to the expectations of its idealistic founders, Oberlin's residents of colour fell increasingly behind their white peers economically in the years after the war. Moreover, leaders of the white-dominated temperance movement conflated class, colour, and respectability, resulting in stigmatization of black residents. Over time, many white Oberlinians came to view black poverty as the result of personal failings, practiced residential segregation, endorsed racially differentiated education in public schools, and excluded people of colour from local government. By 1920, Oberlin's racial utopian vision had dissipated, leaving the community to join the racist mainstream of American society.
Drawing from newspapers, pamphlets, organisational records, memoirs, census materials and tax lists, Elusive Utopia traces the rise and fall of Oberlin's idealistic vision and commitment to racial equality in a pivotal era in American history.
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Carol Lasser, emeritus professor of history at Oberlin College, has published Educating Men and Women Together: Coeducation in a Changing World and Antebellum American Women: Private, Public, Partisan.
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