Sorting Out the New South City - Race, Class, and Urban Development in Charlotte, 1875–1975 (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

One of the largest and fastest-growing cities in the South, Charlotte, North Carolina, came of age in the New South decades of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, transforming itself from a rural courthouse village to the trading and financial hub of America's premier textile manufacturing region. In this book, Thomas W. Hanchett traces the city's spatial evolution over the course of a century, exploring the interplay of national trends and local forces that shaped Charlotte and, by extension, other New South urban centers. Hanchett argues that racial and economic segregation are not age-old givens but products of a decades-long process. Well after the Civil War, Charlotte's whites and blacks, workers and business owners, all lived intermingled in a "salt-and-pepper" pattern. The rise of large manufacturing enterprises in the 1880s and 1890s brought social and political upheaval, however, and the city began to sort out into a "checkerboard" of distinct neighborhoods segregated by both race and class. When urban renewal and other federal funds became available in the mid-twentieth century, local leaders used the money to complete the sorting-out process, creating a "sector" pattern in which wealthy whites increasingly lived on one side of town and blacks on the other.

General

Imprint:	The University of North Carolina Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2020
Authors:	Thomas W. Hanchett
Dimensions:	235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	412
Edition:	2nd Revised edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4696-5644-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General
LSN:	1-4696-5644-2
Barcode:	9781469656441

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