1st Edition
Jim Crow Citizenship Liberalism and the Southern Defense of Racial Hierarchy
By Marek D. Steedman
Copyright 2012
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
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... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Familial Relations: Dependents-by-Nature and the Antebellum Household 3. ‘Dead Votes’: Reconstructing Citizenship and Dependence 4. New Beings: Race and ‘The Foundations of Free Government’ 5. Wards of the Nation: The Progressive Tutelage of the Races 6. Conclusion
Biography
Marek D. Steedman is associate professor of Political Science at the University of Southern Mississippi.
