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Hostile Heartland Racism, Repression, and Resistance in the Midwest
Title
Hostile Heartland [electronic resource] : Racism, Repression, and Resistance in the Midwest / Brent M.S. Campney.
ISBN
0252051335
9780252051333
0252042492
9780252042492
Published
Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Urbana [Illinois] : University of Illinois Press, [2019] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 PDF (viii, 240 pages) :) maps
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Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
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Summary
We forget that racist violence permeated the lower Midwest from the pre-Civil War period until the 1930s. From Kansas to Ohio, whites orchestrated extraordinary events like lynchings and riots while engaged in a spectrum of brutal acts made all the more horrific by being routine. Also forgotten is the fact African Americans forcefully responded to these assertions of white supremacy through armed resistance, the creation of press outlets and civil rights organizations, and courageous individual activism. Drawing on cutting-edge methodology and a wealth of documentary evidence, Brent M. S. Campney analyzes the institutionalized white efforts to assert and maintain dominance over African Americans. Though rooted in the past, white violence evolved into a fundamentally modern phenomenon, driven by technologies such as newspapers, photographs, automobiles, and telephones. Other surprising insights challenge our assumptions about sundown towns, who was targeted by whites, law enforcement's role in facilitating and perpetrating violence, and the details of African American resistance.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - 2019 Complete
Project MUSE - 2019 US Regional Studies, Midwest
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 09, 2019
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-244) and index.
Contents
The antebellum Old Northwest : "for the white man, and the white man only"
Illinois and the legacy of antebellum racist violence : "the peculiar climate of this region"
Indiana during Reconstruction : "this negro elephant is getting to be a pretty large sized animal"
Black families and resistance in Kansas, 1880-1905 : "there is nothing like reputation"
Missouri's Little Dixie, 1899-1921 : "they flog a negro up there every week"
The Missouri Ozarks and beyond, 1894-1930 : "whence all negroes have been driven forth"
The Old Northwest, 1890s-1930s : "if we do our duty no mob can ever get into this jail"
The Midwest in the late lynching period : "a queer precipitate of the old and the new."
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