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- catalog abstract "Tracing the erosion of white elite paternalism in Jim Crow Virginia, Douglas Smith reveals a surprising fluidity in southern racial politics in the decades between World War I and the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. Smith draws on official records, private correspondence, and letters to newspapers from otherwise anonymous Virginians to capture a wide and varied range of black and white voices. African Americans emerge as central characters in the narrative, as Smith chronicles their efforts to obtain access to public schools and libraries, protection under the law, and the equitable distribution of municipal resources. This acceleration of black resistance to white supremacy in the years before World War II precipitated a crisis of confidence among white Virginians, who, despite their overwhelming electoral dominance, felt increasingly insecure about their ability to manage the color line on their own terms. Exploring the everyday power struggles that accompanied the erosion of white authority in the political, economic, and educational arenas, Smith uncovers the seeds of white Virginians' resistance to civil rights activism in the second half of the twentieth century.".
- catalog contributor b12665199.
- catalog coverage "Virginia Politics and government 1865-1950.".
- catalog coverage "Virginia Race relations Political aspects.".
- catalog coverage "Virginia Race relations.".
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-395) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction : separation by consent -- A fine discrimination indeed : party politics and white supremacy from emancipation to world war -- Opportunities found and lost : race and politics after world war -- Redefining race : the campaign for racial purity -- Educating citizens or servants? : Hampton Institute and the divided mind of white Virginians -- Little tyrannies and petty skullduggeries -- A melancholy distinction : Virginia's response to lynching -- The erosion of paternalism : confronting the limits of managed race relations -- Travelling in opposite directions -- Too radical for us : the passing of managed race relations -- Epilogue : the making of massive resistance.".
- catalog description "Tracing the erosion of white elite paternalism in Jim Crow Virginia, Douglas Smith reveals a surprising fluidity in southern racial politics in the decades between World War I and the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. Smith draws on official records, private correspondence, and letters to newspapers from otherwise anonymous Virginians to capture a wide and varied range of black and white voices. African Americans emerge as central characters in the narrative, as Smith chronicles their efforts to obtain access to public schools and libraries, protection under the law, and the equitable distribution of municipal resources. This acceleration of black resistance to white supremacy in the years before World War II precipitated a crisis of confidence among white Virginians, who, despite their overwhelming electoral dominance, felt increasingly insecure about their ability to manage the color line on their own terms. Exploring the everyday power struggles that accompanied the erosion of white authority in the political, economic, and educational arenas, Smith uncovers the seeds of white Virginians' resistance to civil rights activism in the second half of the twentieth century.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 411 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Managing white supremacy.".
- catalog identifier "0807827568 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0807854247 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Managing white supremacy.".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,".
- catalog relation "Managing white supremacy.".
- catalog spatial "Virginia Politics and government 1865-1950.".
- catalog spatial "Virginia Race relations Political aspects.".
- catalog spatial "Virginia Race relations.".
- catalog spatial "Virginia".
- catalog spatial "Virginia.".
- catalog subject "305.896/0730755/09042 21".
- catalog subject "African Americans Civil rights Virginia History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "African Americans Segregation Virginia History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Citizenship Virginia History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Elite (Social sciences) Virginia History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "F235.A1 S65 2002".
- catalog subject "Massive resistance (Southern states history, 1956-1964) Virginia.".
- catalog subject "Whites Virginia Politics and government 20th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction : separation by consent -- A fine discrimination indeed : party politics and white supremacy from emancipation to world war -- Opportunities found and lost : race and politics after world war -- Redefining race : the campaign for racial purity -- Educating citizens or servants? : Hampton Institute and the divided mind of white Virginians -- Little tyrannies and petty skullduggeries -- A melancholy distinction : Virginia's response to lynching -- The erosion of paternalism : confronting the limits of managed race relations -- Travelling in opposite directions -- Too radical for us : the passing of managed race relations -- Epilogue : the making of massive resistance.".
- catalog title "Managing white supremacy : race, politics, and citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia / J. Douglas Smith.".
- catalog type "text".