Ghosts of Jim Crow [electronic resource] : ending racism in post-racial America / F. Michael Higginbotham.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Higginbotham, F. Michael
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2013]
Subjects:
African Americans > Civil rights > History.
African Americans > Segregation > History.
United States > Race relations.
Racism > United States > History.
Online Access:
EBSCO eBooks: 2013 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2013 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Ghosts of Jim Crow: Ending Racism in Post-racial America
Format: Electronic eBook
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.