Ghosts of Jim Crow : ending racism in post-racial America /

Ghosts of Jim Crow : ending racism in post-racial America /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Higginbotham, F. Michael
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2013]
Subjects:
African Americans > Civil rights > History.
African Americans > Segregation > History.
Racism > United States > History.
United States > Race relations.
Table of Contents:
  • Creating the paradigm: racial hierarchy
  • Constructing racial categories from the nation's founding to the Civil War
  • Maintaining white dominance during Reconstruction
  • Preventing black excellence between Plessy and Brown
  • Sustaining the paradigm: white isolation and black separation and subordination
  • Maintaining racial segregation in schools and neighborhoods from Brown to the 21st century
  • Victimizing blacks in the 21st century
  • Ending the paradigm: building a post-racial America
  • Black empowerment and self-help
  • Integration and equality.