Jim Crow Citizenship: Liberalism and the Southern Defense of Racial Hierarchy

by Marek Steedman

In the late 1860s the U.S. federal government initiated the most abrupt transition from slavery to citizenship in the Americas. The transformation, of course, did not stick, but it did permanently alter the terms of American citizenship and initiated a century long struggle over the place of African Americans in the American polity.

Southern Progressives, crucial in this account, were faced with a significant ideological challenge: how to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415890535
• ISBN13: 9780415890533
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"