Managing Inequality
Northern Racial Liberalism in Interwar Detroit
In the wake of the Civil War, many white northern leaders supported race-neutral laws and anti-discrimination statutes. These positions helped amplify the distinctions they drew between their political economic system, which they saw as forward-thinking in its promotion of free market capitalism, and the now vanquished southern system, which had been built on slavery. But this interest in legal race neutrality should not be mistaken for an effort to integrate northern African Americans into the state or society on an equal footing with whites. During the Great Migration, which brought tens of thousands of African Americans into Northern citie…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4798-0363-7
- EAN: 9781479803637
- Produktnummer: 22579092
- Verlag: NYU Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 4'052 KB
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