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This Is Not Dixie - Racist Violence in Kansas, 1861-1927 (Paperback)
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This Is Not Dixie - Racist Violence in Kansas, 1861-1927 (Paperback)
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Loot Price R580
Discovery Miles 5 800
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Often defined as a mostly southern phenomenon, racist violence
existed everywhere. Brent Campney explodes the notion of the
Midwest as a so-called land of freedom with an in-depth study of
assaults both active and threatened faced by African Americans in
post "Civil War Kansas." Campney's capacious definition of
white-on-black violence encompasses not only sensational
demonstrations of white power like lynchings and race riots, but
acts of threatened violence and the varied forms of pervasive
routine violence--property damage, rape, forcible ejection from
towns--used to intimidate African Americans. As he shows, such
methods were a cornerstone of efforts to impose and maintain white
supremacy. Yet Campney's broad consideration of racist violence
also lends new insights into the ways people resisted threats.
African Americans spontaneously hid fugitives and defused lynch
mobs while using newspapers and civil rights groups to lay the
groundwork for forms of institutionalized opposition that could
fight racist violence through the courts and via public opinion.
Ambitious and provocative, This Is Not Dixie rewrites fundamental
narratives on mob action, race relations, African American
resistance, and racism's grim past in the heartland.
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