Black towns, black futures : the enduring allure of a black place in the American West /

"Beginning at the end of the Civil War and continuing for nearly fifty years, Oklahoma saw the settlement of over fifty unique towns with a common thread; in each of these towns, nearly every citizen was African American. Black town founders and residents, who were anxious to escape the raciall...

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Tác giả chính: Slocum, Karla, 1963- (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press [2019]
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469653990_slocum
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  • Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; A Note on Place Names; Introduction; Chapter One: History Stories; Chapter Two: The Case for America; Chapter Three: Economic Futures; Chapter Four: Community of Blackness; Chapter Five: The Appeal of a Black Place; Epilogue; Notes; Glossary of Place Names; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y