In this Book
- This Is Not Dixie: Racist Violence in Kansas, 1861-1927
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: University of Illinois Press
summary
Often defined as a mostly southern phenomenon, racist violence existed everywhere. Brent Campney explodes the notion of the Midwest as a so-called land of freedom with an in-depth study of assaults both active and threatened faced by African Americans in post “Civil War Kansas." Campney's capacious definition of white-on-black violence encompasses not only sensational demonstrations of white power like lynchings and race riots, but acts of threatened violence and the varied forms of pervasive routine violence--property damage, rape, forcible ejection from towns--used to intimidate African Americans. As he shows, such methods were a cornerstone of efforts to impose and maintain white supremacy. Yet Campney's broad consideration of racist violence also lends new insights into the ways people resisted threats. African Americans spontaneously hid fugitives and defused lynch mobs while using newspapers and civil rights groups to lay the groundwork for forms of institutionalized opposition that could fight racist violence through the courts and via public opinion. Ambitious and provocative, This Is Not Dixie rewrites fundamental narratives on mob action, race relations, African American resistance, and racism's grim past in the heartland.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- p. vii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-16
- 5. “Some Finely Tuned Spring-Release Trap”
- pp. 116-131
- 6. “The Life of No Colored Man Is Safe”
- pp. 132-155
- 7. “Sowing the Seed of Hatred and Prejudice”
- pp. 156-178
- Conclusion
- pp. 201-219
- Selected Bibliography
- pp. 273-276
Additional Information
ISBN
9780252097614
Related ISBN(s)
9780252039508, 9780252083792
MARC Record
OCLC
919071314
Pages
296
Launched on MUSE
2015-08-25
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2018