Segregation : a global history of divided cities / Carl H. Nightingale.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nightingale, Carl Husemoller
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2012, ©2012.
Series:Historical studies of urban America.
Subjects:
Discrimination in housing > History.
Segregation > History.
Urban policy > History.
Urban minorities > Housing > History.
Discrimination in housing > United States.
Segregation > United States.
Urban policy > United States.
Minorities > Housing > United States.
Physical Description:xviii, 517 pages : illustrations.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Ancestries
  • Seventy centuries of city-splitting
  • Before race mattered
  • The long shadow of the Ziggurat
  • Segregating strangers
  • Scapegoat ghettos
  • Quarters for classes, crafts, clans, castes, and the sexes
  • Ancient and medieval legacies
  • Color and race come to the city
  • White town/black town
  • Governor Pitt's Madras
  • The rise and fall of American (and South African) segregation in colonial times
  • Eastward connections
  • The cross-colonial color connection
  • Color before race
  • Race and the London-Calcutta connection
  • The modern way to split a city
  • How London conquered and divided Calcutta
  • Race and the imperial city
  • The London-Calcutta sanitation connection
  • The West End's White Town connection
  • London's Calcutta problem
  • Surges of segregation in the colonies
  • The stations Raj
  • Paradoxes of detachment and dependence
  • Beyond Calcutta
  • Stations of the empire
  • "Bring your cities and stations within the pale of civilization"
  • Stations for sale?
  • Beyond India
  • Segregating the Pacific
  • Incomings and outgoings
  • Segregating China's gateways
  • Tides in the Pacific
  • Segregating all oceans
  • Segregation mania
  • A call to all continents
  • The germ theory of segregation
  • Segregation sails East with the plague
  • Hunting rats, fleas, and mosquitoes in Africa
  • The high tide of segregation mania
  • The long end of the craze
  • Legacies of the mania
  • The outer limits of colonial urbanism
  • Imperial monuments, imperial tombstones
  • French connections
  • A French Calcutta?
  • Planet Haussmann
  • Splitting cities, beaux-arts style
  • Sunset at New Delhi
  • A bitter epitaph
  • The archsegregationists
  • The multifarious segregation of Johannesburg
  • Archsegregationism and the wider world
  • Squaring race and civilization
  • A keystone of global anglo-saxondom
  • The birth of "separate development"
  • From labor control to "influx control"
  • Grandparents of the group areas
  • The furies fly in the settlers' city
  • Arrogance and its agonies
  • The intimacies of race war
  • They will buy us out of the country
  • Pandora's segregationism
  • The birth pangs of nation-state segregation
  • Camouflaging the color line in Chicago
  • A subtler sort of segregation?
  • Segregating the United States
  • Jim-crowing the neighborhoods
  • Segregation by profiteer, protective association, and pogrom
  • A time for camouflage
  • The "iron ring"?
  • Segregation at the extremes
  • Split cities and the global cataclysm
  • Hitler's "death boxes"
  • A new deal for America's color lines
  • The sinister synthesis of apartheid
  • Fragmented legacies
  • Outflanking a global revolution
  • Age of liberation, age of apocalypse
  • Have ghettos gone global?
  • Postcolonial and neocolonial city-splitting
  • A new century of settler segregation?
  • Epilogue: people, the planet, and segregated cities.