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Hostile Heartland - Racism, Repression, and Resistance in the Midwest (Paperback)
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Hostile Heartland - Racism, Repression, and Resistance in the Midwest (Paperback)
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We forget that racist violence permeated the lower Midwest from the
pre-Civil War period until the 1930s. From Kansas to Ohio, whites
orchestrated extraordinary events like lynchings and riots while
engaged in a spectrum of brutal acts made all the more horrific by
being routine. Also forgotten is the fact African Americans
forcefully responded to these assertions of white supremacy through
armed resistance, the creation of press outlets and civil rights
organizations, and courageous individual activism. Drawing on
cutting-edge methodology and a wealth of documentary evidence,
Brent M. S. Campney analyzes the institutionalized white efforts to
assert and maintain dominance over African Americans. Though rooted
in the past, white violence evolved into a fundamentally modern
phenomenon, driven by technologies such as newspapers, photographs,
automobiles, and telephones. Other surprising insights challenge
our assumptions about sundown towns, who was targeted by whites,
law enforcement's role in facilitating and perpetrating violence,
and the details of African American resistance.
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