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Jim Crow Terminals - The Desegregation of American Airports (Hardcover)
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Jim Crow Terminals - The Desegregation of American Airports (Hardcover)
Series: Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South Series
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Historical accounts of racial discrimination in transportation have
focused until now on trains, buses, and streetcars and their
respective depots, terminals, stops, and other public
accommodations. It is essential to add airplanes and airports to
this narrative, says Anke Ortlepp. Air travel stands at the center
of the twentieth century's transportation revolution, and airports
embodied the rapidly mobilizing, increasingly prosperous, and
cosmopolitan character of the postwar United States. When
segregationists inscribed local definitions of whiteness and
blackness onto sites of interstate and even international transit,
they not only brought the incongruities of racial separation into
sharp relief but also obligated the federal government to
intervene. Ortlepp looks at African American passengers; civil
rights organizations; the federal government and judiciary; and
airport planners, architects, and managers as actors in shaping
aviation's legal, cultural, and built environments. She relates the
struggles of black travelers-to enjoy the same freedoms on the
airport grounds that they enjoyed in the aircraft cabin-in the
context of larger shifts in the postwar social, economic, and
political order. Jim Crow terminals, Ortlepp shows us, were both
spatial expressions of sweeping change and sites of confrontation
over the re-negotiation of racial identities. Hence, this new study
situates itself in the scholarly debate over the multifaceted
entanglements of "race" and "space."
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