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Ghosts of Jim Crow

Higginbotham, F. Michael.

Ghosts of Jim Crow ending racism in post-racial America / [electronic resource] : F. Michael Higginbotham. - New York : New York University Press, [2013] - 1 online resource (x, 316 pages )

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Creating the paradigm: racial hierarchy -- Constructing racial categories from the nation's founding to the Civil War -- Maintaining white dominance during Reconstruction -- Preventing black excellence between Plessy and Brown -- Sustaining the paradigm: white isolation and black separation and subordination -- Maintaining racial segregation in schools and neighborhoods from Brown to the 21st century -- Victimizing blacks in the 21st century -- Ending the paradigm: building a post-racial America -- Black empowerment and self-help -- Integration and equality.

9780814724460 0814737471


African Americans--Segregation--History.
African Americans--Civil rights--History.


Racism--History.--United States
United States--Race relations.


Electronic books.

E185.61 / .H58 2013

305.896/073