The Retreats of Reconstruction: Race, Leisure, and the Politics of Segregation at the New Jersey Shore, 1865-1920

by David E. Goldberg

Book Overview

This book examines how de facto segregation unfolded and operated at the New Jersey shore after the Civil War. Weaving together histories of race, leisure, and consumption, it argues that the politics of mass consumption contained early desegregation efforts and prolonged Jim Crow.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823272729
• ISBN13: 9780823272723
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"