The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North

Segregation and Struggle outside of the South

Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States, 20th Century
Cover of the book The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North by , NYU Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: ISBN: 9781479881192
Publisher: NYU Press Publication: April 23, 2019
Imprint: NYU Press Language: English
Author:
ISBN: 9781479881192
Publisher: NYU Press
Publication: April 23, 2019
Imprint: NYU Press
Language: English

Did American racism originate in the liberal North? An inquiry into the system of institutionalized racism created by Northern Jim Crow

Jim Crow was not a regional sickness, it was a national cancer. Even at the high point of twentieth century liberalism in the North, Jim Crow racism hid in plain sight. Perpetuated by colorblind arguments about “cultures of poverty,” policies focused more on black criminality than black equality. Procedures that diverted resources in education, housing, and jobs away from poor black people turned ghettos and prisons into social pandemics. Americans in the North made this history. They tried to unmake it, too.

Liberalism, rather than lighting the way to vanquish the darkness of the Jim Crow North gave racism new and complex places to hide. The twelve original essays in this anthology unveil Jim Crow’s many strange careers in the North. They accomplish two goals: first, they show how the Jim Crow North worked as a system to maintain social, economic, and political inequality in the nation’s most liberal places; and second, they chronicle how activists worked to undo the legal, economic, and social inequities born of Northern Jim Crow policies, practices, and ideas.

The book ultimately dispels the myth that the South was the birthplace of American racism, and presents a compelling argument that American racism actually originated in the North.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

Did American racism originate in the liberal North? An inquiry into the system of institutionalized racism created by Northern Jim Crow

Jim Crow was not a regional sickness, it was a national cancer. Even at the high point of twentieth century liberalism in the North, Jim Crow racism hid in plain sight. Perpetuated by colorblind arguments about “cultures of poverty,” policies focused more on black criminality than black equality. Procedures that diverted resources in education, housing, and jobs away from poor black people turned ghettos and prisons into social pandemics. Americans in the North made this history. They tried to unmake it, too.

Liberalism, rather than lighting the way to vanquish the darkness of the Jim Crow North gave racism new and complex places to hide. The twelve original essays in this anthology unveil Jim Crow’s many strange careers in the North. They accomplish two goals: first, they show how the Jim Crow North worked as a system to maintain social, economic, and political inequality in the nation’s most liberal places; and second, they chronicle how activists worked to undo the legal, economic, and social inequities born of Northern Jim Crow policies, practices, and ideas.

The book ultimately dispels the myth that the South was the birthplace of American racism, and presents a compelling argument that American racism actually originated in the North.

More books from NYU Press

Cover of the book Habeas Corpus by
Cover of the book Phantom Limb by
Cover of the book What the Rabbis Said by
Cover of the book Freud's Paranoid Quest by
Cover of the book Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Feminist as Thinker by
Cover of the book Long Overdue by
Cover of the book The Queer Renaissance by
Cover of the book Qualitative Data by
Cover of the book Age in America by
Cover of the book Hitler's Millennial Reich by
Cover of the book Race War! by
Cover of the book A Bun in the Oven by
Cover of the book Women in Early America by
Cover of the book Not My Kid by
Cover of the book Revolutionary Medicine by
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy