Chocolate City [electronic resource] : a history of race and democracy in the Nation's Capital / Chris Myers Asch & George Derek Musgrove.
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2017]
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Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital |
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Contents:
- Always a Chocolate City
- Your coming is not for trade, but to invade my people and possess my country: a native American world under siege, 1608-1790
- Of slaving blacks and democratic whites: building a capital of slavery and freedom, 1790-1815
- Our boastings of liberty and equality are mere mockeries: confronting contradictions in the nation's capital, 1815-1836
- Slavery must die: the turbulent end to human bondage in Washington, 1836-1862
- Emancipate, enfranchise, educate: freedom and the hope of interracial democracy, 1862-1869
- Incapable of self-government: the retreat from democracy, 1869-1890
- National show town: building a modern, prosperous, and segregated capital, 1890-1912
- There is a new Negro to be reckoned with: segregation, war, and a new spirit of black militancy, 1912-1932
- Washington is a giant awakened: community organizing in a booming city, 1932-1945
- Segregation does not die gradually of itself: Jim Crow's collapse, 1945-1956
- How long? How long?: mounting frustration within the black majority, 1956-1968
- There's gonna be flames, there's gonna be fighting, there's gonna be rebellion!: the tumult and promise of Chocolate City, 1968-1978
- Perfect for Washington: Marion Barry and the rise and fall of Chocolate City, 1979-1994
- Go home rich white people: Washington becomes wealthier and whiter, 1995-2010
- That must not be true of tomorrow: history, race, and democracy in a new moment of racial flux.