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Winner of the Bancroft Prize Winner of the David J. Langum Prize
Winner of the OAH Liberty Legacy Foundation Award A New York Times
Book Review Editors' Choice "This extraordinary book is a powerful
addition to the history of travel segregation...Mia Bay shows that
Black mobility has always been a struggle." -Ibram X. Kendi, author
of How to Be an Antiracist "In Mia Bay's superb history of mobility
and resistance, the question of literal movement becomes a way to
understand the civil rights movement writ large." -Jennifer Szalai,
New York Times "Traveling Black is well worth the fare. Indeed, it
is certain to become the new standard on this important, and too
often forgotten, history." -Henry Louis Gates, Jr., author of Stony
the Road From Plessy v. Ferguson to #DrivingWhileBlack, African
Americans have fought to move freely around the United States. But
why this focus on Black mobility? From stagecoaches and trains to
buses, cars, and planes, Traveling Black explores when, how, and
why racial restrictions took shape in America and brilliantly
portrays what it was like to live with them. Mia Bay rescues
forgotten stories of passengers who made it home despite being
insulted, stranded, re-routed, or ignored. She shows that Black
travelers never stopped challenging these humiliations, documenting
a sustained fight for redress that falls outside the traditional
boundaries of the civil rights movement. A riveting, character-rich
account of the rise and fall of racial segregation, it reveals just
how central travel restrictions were to the creation of Jim Crow
laws-and why free movement has been at the heart of the quest for
racial justice ever since.
Born to slaves in 1862, Ida B. Wells became a fearless antilynching
crusader, women's rights advocate, and journalist. Wells's refusal
to accept any compromise on racial inequality caused her to be
labeled a "dangerous radical" in her day but made her a model for
later civil rights activists as well as a powerful witness to the
troubled racial politics of her era. Though she eventually helped
found the NAACP in 1910, she would not remain a member for long, as
she rejected not only Booker T. Washington's accommodationism but
also the moderating influence of white reformers within the early
NAACP. In the richly illustrated "To Tell the Truth Freely," the
historian Mia Bay vividly captures Wells's legacy and life, from
her childhood in Mississippi to her early career in
late-nineteenth-century Memphis and her later life in
Progressive-era Chicago.
Winner of the Bancroft Prize Winner of the David J. Langum Prize
Winner of the OAH Liberty Legacy Foundation Award A New York Times
Critics' Top Book of the Year "This extraordinary book is a
powerful addition to the history of travel segregation. Traveling
Black reveals how travel discrimination transformed over time from
segregated trains to buses and Uber rides. Mia Bay shows that Black
mobility has always been a struggle." -Ibram X. Kendi, author of
How to Be an Antiracist A riveting, character-rich account of
racial segregation in America that reveals just how central travel
restrictions were to the creation of Jim Crow laws-and why
"traveling Black" has been at the heart of the quest for racial
justice ever since. From Plessy v. Ferguson to #DrivingWhileBlack,
African Americans have fought for over a century to move freely
around the United States. Curious as to why so many cases
contesting the doctrine of "separate but equal" involved trains and
buses, Mia Bay went back to the sources with some basic questions:
How did travel segregation begin? Why were so many of those who
challenged it in court women? How did it move from one form of
transport to another, and what was it like to be caught up in this
web of contradictory rules? From stagecoaches and trains to buses,
cars, and planes, Traveling Black explores when, how, and why
racial restrictions took shape and brilliantly portrays what it was
like to live with them. "There is not in the world a more
disgraceful denial of human brotherhood than the 'Jim Crow' car of
the southern United States," W. E. B. Du Bois famously declared.
Bay unearths troves of supporting evidence, rescuing forgotten
stories of undaunted passengers who made it back home despite being
insulted, stranded, re-routed, or ignored. Black travelers never
stopped challenging these humiliations and insisting on justice in
the courts. Traveling Black upends our understanding of Black
resistance, documenting a sustained fight that falls outside the
traditional boundaries of the civil rights movement. A masterpiece
of scholarly and human insight, this book helps explain why the
long, unfinished journey to racial equality so often takes place on
the road.
"Katrina's Imprint" highlights the power of this sentinel American
event and its continuing reverberations in contemporary politics,
culture, and public policy. Published on the fifth anniversary of
Hurricane Katrina, the multidisciplinary volume reflects on how
history, location, access to transportation, health care, and
social position feed resilience, recovery, and prospects for the
future of New Orleans and the Gulf region. Essays examine the
intersecting vulnerabilities that gave rise to the disaster,
explore the cultural and psychic legacies of the storm, reveal how
the process of rebuilding and starting over replicates past
vulnerabilities, and analyze Katrina's imprint alongside American's
myths of self-sufficiency. A case study of new weaknesses that have
emerged in our era, this book offers an argument for why we cannot
wait for the next disaster before we apply the lessons that should
be learned from Katrina.
"Katrina's Imprint" highlights the power of this sentinel American
event and its continuing reverberations in contemporary politics,
culture, and public policy. Published on the fifth anniversary of
Hurricane Katrina, the multidisciplinary volume reflects on how
history, location, access to transportation, health care, and
social position feed resilience, recovery, and prospects for the
future of New Orleans and the Gulf region. Essays examine the
intersecting vulnerabilities that gave rise to the disaster,
explore the cultural and psychic legacies of the storm, reveal how
the process of rebuilding and starting over replicates past
vulnerabilities, and analyze Katrina's imprint alongside American's
myths of self-sufficiency. A case study of new weaknesses that have
emerged in our era, this book offers an argument for why we cannot
wait for the next disaster before we apply the lessons that should
be learned from Katrina.
Race has long shaped shopping experiences for many Americans.
Retail exchanges and establishments have made headlines as
flashpoints for conflict not only between blacks and whites, but
also between whites, Mexicans, Asian Americans, and a wide variety
of other ethnic groups, who have at times found themselves
unwelcome at white-owned businesses. Race and Retail documents the
extent to which retail establishments, both past and present, have
often catered to specific ethnic and racial groups. Using an
interdisciplinary approach, the original essays collected here
explore selling and buying practices of nonwhite populations around
the world and the barriers that shape these habits, such as racial
discrimination, food deserts, and gentrification. The contributors
highlight more contemporary issues by raising questions about how
race informs business owners' ideas about consumer demand,
resulting in substandard quality and higher prices for minorities
than in predominantly white neighborhoods. In a wide-ranging
exploration of the subject, they also address revitalization and
gentrification in South Korean and Latino neighborhoods in
California, Arab and Turkish coffeehouses and hookah lounges in
South Paterson, New Jersey, and tourist capoeira consumption in
Brazil. Race and Retail illuminates the complex play of forces at
work in racialized retail markets and the everyday impact of those
forces on minority consumers. The essays demonstrate how past
practice remains in force in subtle and not-so-subtle ways.
Race has long shaped shopping experiences for many Americans.
Retail exchanges and establishments have made headlines as
flashpoints for conflict not only between blacks and whites, but
also between whites, Mexicans, Asian Americans, and a wide variety
of other ethnic groups, who have at times found themselves
unwelcome at white-owned businesses. Race and Retail documents the
extent to which retail establishments, both past and present, have
often catered to specific ethnic and racial groups. Using an
interdisciplinary approach, the original essays collected here
explore selling and buying practices of nonwhite populations around
the world and the barriers that shape these habits, such as racial
discrimination, food deserts, and gentrification. The contributors
highlight more contemporary issues by raising questions about how
race informs business owners' ideas about consumer demand,
resulting in substandard quality and higher prices for minorities
than in predominantly white neighborhoods. In a wide-ranging
exploration of the subject, they also address revitalization and
gentrification in South Korean and Latino neighborhoods in
California, Arab and Turkish coffeehouses and hookah lounges in
South Paterson, New Jersey, and tourist capoeira consumption in
Brazil. Race and Retail illuminates the complex play of forces at
work in racialized retail markets and the everyday impact of those
forces on minority consumers. The essays demonstrate how past
practice remains in force in subtle and not-so-subtle ways.
Historical studies of white racial thought focus exclusively on white ideas about the "Negroes". Bay's study is the first to examine the reverse -- black ideas about whites, and, consequently, black understandings of race and racial categories. Bay examines African-American ideas about white racial character and destiny in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In examining black racial thought, this work also explores the extent to which black Americans accepted or rejected 19th century notions about innate racial characteristics.
Historical studies of white racial thought focus exclusively on white ideas about the "Negroes". Bay's study is the first to examine the reverse -- black ideas about whites, and, consequently, black understandings of race and racial categories. Bay examines African-American ideas about white racial character and destiny in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In examining black racial thought, this work also explores the extent to which black Americans accepted or rejected 19th century notions about innate racial characteristics.
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