TY  - BOOK
AU  - Campney,Brent M.S.
TI  - This is not Dixie: racist violence in Kansas, 1861-1927 
SN  - 9780252097614
AV  - E185 .T457 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Urbana
PB  - University of Illinois Press
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Violence against
KW  - Kansas
KW  - History
KW  - Racism
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; "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"; 2; b
N2  - 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
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