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The crucible of race: Black/White relations in the American South since emancipation

Joel Williamson
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • PART ONE: SLAVERY AND AFTER, TO 1889
  • I. The Genesis of the Organic Society (page 11)
    • 1. Between Two Worlds (page 11)
    • 2. The Hard-Soft Period of Slavery (page 15)
    • 3. The Organic Society (page 24)
    • 4. Black Culture (page 35)
    • 5. A Fusion of Cultures and Colors (page 38)
  • II. Black Life in the South, 1865-1915 (page 44)
    • 1. Black Reconstruction (page 44)
    • 2. Disengagement and Alienation (page 50)
    • 3. The Feudalization of Black Life (page 52)
    • 4. Nobody's Negro (page 57)
    • 5. Charles W. Chesnutt (page 61)
    • 6. Variously Black (page 67)
    • 7. Definition: Washington and DuBois (page 70)
  • III. The Conservative Restoration and the Liberal Revolt (page 79)
    • 1. White Reconstruction (page 79)
    • 2. The Liberal Revolt-Paternalism Revisited (page 85)
    • 3. Atticus Greene Haygood and Churchly Liberalism (page 88)
    • 4. George Washington Cable and Secular Liberalism (page 93)
    • 5. Critiques of Liberalism-New South and Old (page 100)
    • 6. Referendum on Race: The Open Letter Club (page 104)
    • 7. Summation (page 107)
  • PART TWO: THE RAGE OF RADICALISM, 1889-1915
  • IV. The Rise of the Radicals (page 111)
    • 1. Radical Thinking (page 111)
    • 2. Radical Thinkers (page 119)
    • 3. Rebecca Latimer Felton: Thought and Action (page 124)
    • 4. Benjamin Ryan Tillman (page 130)
  • V. Thomas Dixon and The Leopard's Spots (page 140)
    • 1. The Leopard's Spots as the Radical Message (page 141)
    • 2. Thomas Dixon, Jr., a Biography (page 151)
    • 3. Thomas Dixon's Complaint (page 158)
    • 4. Why Thomas Dixon wrote The Leopard's Spots and Its Sequels (page 165)
    • 5. Other Radical Leaders (page 176)
  • VI. In Violence Veritas (page 180)
    • 1. Popular Radicalism (page 180)
    • 2. Lynching (page 183)
    • 3. Rioting (page 189)
    • 4. The Wilmington Riot (page 195)
    • 5. The Robert Charles Riot in New Orleans (page 201)
    • 6. The Causes of the Atlanta Riot (page 209)
    • 7. The Atlanta Riot (page 215)
    • 8. Aftermath (page 220)
  • VII. Depoliticalization and the Separation of the Races (page 224)
    • 1. Disfranchisement (page 225)
    • 2. Disfranchisement in Virginia (page 234)
    • 3. Disfranchisement in Oklahoma and Elsewhere (page 241)
    • 4. Emotional Disfranchisement (page 247)
    • 5. The Separation of the Races (page 249)
    • 6. The Separation of Cultures (page 256)
  • VIII. The Conservative Response to Radicalism (page 259)
    • 1. The Sledd Case (page 259)
    • 2. The Bassett Case (page 261)
    • 3. The Alienation of the Conservative Activist (page 268)
    • 4. The Retreats of Conservatism: Education (page 271)
    • 5. The Retreats of Conservatism: Religion (page 276)
    • 6. The Retreats of Conservatism: Conclusion (page 283)
  • IX. The Crucible of Race (page 285)
    • 1. The Philosophical Dichotomy (page 285)
    • 2. The One-Shot Style of Southern Leadership-with William J. Northern as an Exception (page 287)
    • 3. The Grit Thesis: A Class Interpretation of Extreme Racism (page 291)
    • 4. Other Radical-Conservative Dichotomies (page 295)
    • 5. Why Some Leaders Became Radicals (page 300)
    • 6. An Unreal World: Race and Sex in the Modern South (page 306)
    • 7. The Bible Belt (page 310)
    • 8. The Central Theme of Southern History (page 317)
    • 9. Consequences (page 322)
  • PART THREE: THE NORTH AND THE NEGRO, 1889-1915
  • X. The North and the Negro in the South (page 327)
    • 1. Northern Support of Black Schools in the South (page 327)
    • 2. Southern Racial Missionaries to the North (page 330)
    • 3. Race and Reunion (page 336)
    • 4. The Northern Capitulation to Racism (page 339)
  • XI. Northern Republicans and Southern Race Relations, 1895-1912 (page 341)
    • 1. Hanna and McKinley Discover Separate and Equal (page 342)
    • 2. Theodore Roosevelt and Southern Politics (page 345)
    • 3. Taft and the Lily-White South (page 356)
    • 4. The Demise of Black Republicanism in the South (page 362)
  • XII. Radical Swan Song: Radicalism and Conservatism in Washington under Woodrow Wilson (page 364)
    • 1. The Wilsonian Racial Solution (page 365)
    • 2. Radical Segregation in the Wilson Administration (page 368)
    • 3. The Black Reaction: The NAACP in the Nation's Capital (page 371)
    • 4. The Black Response in the Nation at Large (page 375)
    • 5. Radicals vs. Conservatives within the Wilson Administration (page 378)
    • 6. The Wilsonian Racial Settlement (page 385)
  • PART FOUR: SOUL FOLK
  • XIII. The Souls of Black Folk (page 399)
    • 1. Du Bois on Black Soul (page 399)
    • 2. Du Boisian Thought as Hegelian (page 402)
    • 3. How Du Bois Became a Hegelian (page 405)
    • 4. Du Boisian Action as Hegelian (page 409)
  • XIV. White Soul (page 414)
    • 1. Edgar Gardner Murphy as a Prime Spokesman for Volksgeistian Conservatism (page 415)
    • 2. Democracy and Education in the New South (page 421)
    • 3. The Industrial Revolution in the South for Whites Only (page 429)
    • 4. Old South Idealism Brought into the New (page 444)
    • 5. The White Communion (page 449)
    • 6. The New Orthodoxy (page 455)
  • XV. Legacy: Race Relations in the Twentieth-Century South (page 459)
    • 1. The White South Loses the Black Problem (page 460)
    • 2. The Paranoid Style in the Twentieth-Century South (page 464)
    • 3. The Unreal South (page 475)
    • 4. Southern White Liberals in the Twentieth Century (page 482)
    • 5. The Three Faces of Eve (page 493)
    • 6. Black Breakout (page 501)
    • 7. the Conservative Resurgence (page 507)
  • Conclusion (page 511)
    • The Great Changeover: An Interpretation of White Culture and Race Relations in the American South (page 511)
  • Notes (page 523)
  • Index (page 555)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
RFDA 27/28 (Feb. 1986): 175-176 http://www.jstor.org/stable/20873392
RKHS 83.3 (Summer. 1985): 280-282 http://www.jstor.org/stable/23381043
TNHQ 44.3 (Fall. 1985): 353-354 http://www.jstor.org/stable/42626530
FHQ 64.1 (Jul. 1985): 103-105 http://www.jstor.org/stable/30149920
JSH 51.3 (Aug. 1985): 450-452 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2209277
JAH 72.2 (Sep. 1985): 432-433 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1903439
JSocH 19.4 (Summer. 1986): 709-711 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3787987
AHR 90.4 (Oct. 1985): 1017-1018 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1859011
WMH 69.3 (Spring. 1986): 238-240 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4635983
VMHB 94.2 (Apr. 1986): 233-234 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4248887
RAH 13.2 (Jun. 1985): 222-226 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2702414
GHQ 69.3 (Fall. 1985): 419-421 http://www.jstor.org/stable/40581419
Citable Link
Published: 1984
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780195033823 (hardcover)
  • 9780198020493 (ebook)
Subject
  • American: General & Multiperiod
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