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Whiteness in Plain View: A History of Racial Exclusion in Minnesota

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2022
Published by: Minnesota Historical Society Press
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An examination of White Minnesotans’ efforts to exclude African Americans from local communities, jobs, and housing across the state and through the decades.

Table of Contents

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Cover

Half-Title Page, Title Page, Copyright

pp. i-iv

Contents

pp. v-vi

Introduction

pp. 1-16

1. "The Master Race of the World Is Caucasian": Punitive Expeditions, Mass Hanging, and Forced Removal

pp. 17-39

2. "They All Must Be Taught Their Duty": Barbers, Porters, Washerwomen, and Inmates

pp. 40-64

3. Not "a Negro Town": Packinghouse Workers and Whiteness in Austin

pp. 65-90

4. "In That Very Northern City": Making the Color Line in Duluth

pp. 91-120

5. "A Bigoted, Prejudiced, Hateful Little Area": Racial Exclusion in Edina

pp. 121-145

6. "This Vicious Vice": Black Removal in St. Paul

pp. 146-172

7. "The First Negro Family on Our Block": A Housing Integration Campaign in Bloomington

pp. 173-194

Epilogue

pp. 195-204

Acknowledgments

pp. 205-206

Notes

pp. 207-240

Bibliography

pp. 241-248

Index

pp. 249-263

Colophon

pp. 264-266

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