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Segregation in the New South - Birmingham, Alabama, 1871-1901 (Hardcover)
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Segregation in the New South - Birmingham, Alabama, 1871-1901 (Hardcover)
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Carl V. Harris's Segregation in the New South, completed and edited
by W. Elliot Brownlee, explores the rise of racial exclusion in
late nineteenth-century Birmingham, Alabama. In the 1870s, African
Americans in this crucial southern industrial city were eager to
exploit the disarray of slavery's old racial lines, assert their
new autonomy, and advance toward full equality. However, most
southern whites worked to restore the restrictive racial lines of
the antebellum South or invent new ones that would guarantee the
subordination of Black residents. From Birmingham's founding in
1871, color lines divided the city, and as its people strove to
erase the lines or fortify them, they shaped their futures in
fateful ways. Social segregation is at the center of Harris's
history. He shows that from the beginning of Reconstruction
southern whites engaged in a comprehensive program of assigning
social dishonor to African Americans-the same kind of dishonor that
whites of the Old South had imposed on Black people while enslaving
them. In the process, southern whites engaged in constructing the
meaning of race in the New South.
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