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

by Chad Montrie

Book Overview

An examination of White Minnesotans' efforts to exclude African Americans from local communities, jobs, and housing across the state and through the decades.

Minnesota is a paradox. Widely seen as a progressive stronghold of the Midwest, the state also has some of the greatest racial disparities in the nation. Those disparities have their roots in Minnesota's earliest days as a territory and in the decades that followed. From enslaved...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1681342103
• ISBN13: 9781681342108
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"