"Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans" examines a
difficult chapter in American religious history: the story of race
prejudice in American Christianity. Focusing on the largest city in
the late-nineteenth-century South, it explores the relationship
between churches--black and white, Protestant and Catholic--and the
emergence of the Jim Crow laws, statutes that created a racial
caste system in the American South. The book fills a gap in the
scholarship on religion and race in the crucial decades between the
end of Reconstruction and the eve of the Civil Rights movement.
Drawing on a range of local and personal accounts from the
post-Reconstruction period, newspapers, and church records,
Bennett's analysis challenges the assumption that churches fell
into fixed patterns of segregation without a fight. In sacred no
less than secular spheres, establishing Jim Crow constituted a
long, slow, and complicated journey that extended well into the
twentieth century.
Churches remained a source of hope and a means of resistance
against segregation, rather than a retreat from racial oppression.
Especially in the decade after Reconstruction, churches offered the
possibility of creating a common identity that privileged religious
over racial status, a pattern that black church members hoped would
transfer to a national American identity transcending racial
differences. Religion thus becomes a lens to reconsider patterns
for racial interaction throughout Southern society. By tracing the
contours of that hopeful yet ultimately tragic journey, this book
reveals the complex and mutually influential relationship between
church and society in the American South, placing churches at the
center of the nation's racial struggles.
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