This is not Dixie : racist violence in Kansas, 1861-1927 /
Campney, Brent M. S.
This is not Dixie : racist violence in Kansas, 1861-1927 / Brent M. S. Campney. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
"Light is bursting upon the world!" -- "Negroes are the favorites of the government" -- "Kansas has an ample supply of darkies" -- "A day more dreadful than any that we have yet experienced" -- "Some finely tuned spring-release trap" -- "The life of no colored man is safe" -- "Sowing the seed of hatred and prejudice" -- "Peace at home is the most essential thing".
Often defined as a mostly southern phenomenon, racist violence existed everywhere. Brent M.S. 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.
9780252097614 9780252039508
2019717416
African Americans--Violence against--History.--Kansas
Racism--History.--Kansas
African Americans--History.--Kansas
Electronic Books.
E185 / .T457 2015
This is not Dixie : racist violence in Kansas, 1861-1927 / Brent M. S. Campney. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
"Light is bursting upon the world!" -- "Negroes are the favorites of the government" -- "Kansas has an ample supply of darkies" -- "A day more dreadful than any that we have yet experienced" -- "Some finely tuned spring-release trap" -- "The life of no colored man is safe" -- "Sowing the seed of hatred and prejudice" -- "Peace at home is the most essential thing".
Often defined as a mostly southern phenomenon, racist violence existed everywhere. Brent M.S. 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.
9780252097614 9780252039508
2019717416
African Americans--Violence against--History.--Kansas
Racism--History.--Kansas
African Americans--History.--Kansas
Electronic Books.
E185 / .T457 2015