The Color Line: A Short Introduction

ISBN-13: 9780367818920 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 138 str.

David Lyons

Opis

The Color Line provides a concise history of the role of race and ethnicity in the US, from the early colonial period to the present, to reveal the public policies and private actions that have enabled racial subordination and the actors who have fought against it.

Spis treści

1. The Color Line. 2. Pre-contact North America and European Colonization 3. Early Virginia 4. A Slave System is Established 5. Beyond Virginia 6. The Founding 7. King Cotton 8. More Land and Labor 9. Sectional Conflicts and the Color Line 10. Civil War and Reconstruction 11. Redemption and Jim Crow 12. Western Indians 13. Closing the Door 14. An American Empire 15. The Great Migration 16. Surviving and Defying Jim Crow 17. The Second Reconstruction 18. The Civil Rights Movement 19. Black Separatism, Armed Self-Defense and Urban Disorders 20. The Wider Civil Rights Movement 21. End of the Second Reconstruction 22. The Persistence of the Color Line 23. Where Do We Go From Here—and How Do We Get There?

O autorze

David Lyons is Professor Emeritus at Boston University, Massachusetts, USA. He previously taught at Cornell University in New York from 1964 to 1995. Focusing on moral and political theory, his previous books range from Forms and Limits of Utilitarianism (1965) to Confronting Injustice (2013).