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Author Bennett, James B., 1967- author.

Title Religion and the rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans / James B. Bennett
Published Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2005]
©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 305 pages) : illustrations
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER 1. Interracial Methodism in New Orleans; CHAPTER 2. Instituting Interracial Methodism; CHAPTER 3. The Decline of Interracial Methodism; CHAPTER 4. Renegotiating Black Methodist Identity; CHAPTER 5. Interracial Catholicism in New Orleans; CHAPTER 6. The Decline of Interracial Catholicism; CHAPTER 7. Renegotiating Black Catholic Identity; EPILOGUE. Religion and Baseball in New Orleans; Abbreviations; Notes; Index
Summary Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans examines a difficult chapter in American religious history: the story of race prejudice in American Christianity. Focusing on the largest city in the late-nineteenth-century South, it explores the relationship between churches--black and white, Protestant and Catholic--and the emergence of the Jim Crow laws, statutes that created a racial caste system in the American South. The book fills a gap in the scholarship on religion and race in the crucial decades between the end of Reconstruction and the eve of the Civil Rights movement. Drawing on a range of local and personal accounts from the post-Reconstruction period, newspapers, and church records, Bennett's analysis challenges the assumption that churches fell into fixed patterns of segregation without a fight. In sacred no less than secular spheres, establishing Jim Crow constituted a long, slow, and complicated journey that extended well into the twentieth century. Churches remained a source of hope and a means of resistance against segregation, rather than a retreat from racial oppression. Especially in the decade after Reconstruction, churches offered the possibility of creating a common identity that privileged religious over racial status, a pattern that black church members hoped would transfer to a national American identity transcending racial differences. Religion thus becomes a lens to reconsider patterns for racial interaction throughout Southern society. By tracing the contours of that hopeful yet ultimately tragic journey, this book reveals the complex and mutually influential relationship between church and society in the American South, placing churches at the center of the nation's racial struggles
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-297) and index
Notes English
Print version record
SUBJECT Katholische Kirche gnd
Bischöfliche Methodistenkirche in Deutschland gnd
Bischöfliche Methodistenkirche. gnd
Subject African Americans -- Segregation -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 19th century
Segregation -- Religious aspects -- Methodist Church -- History -- 19th century
Segregation -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church -- History -- 19th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
Segregation -- Religious aspects -- Methodist Church
Segregation -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church
African Americans -- Segregation
Race relations
Ethnische Beziehungen
Segregation Soziologie
Segregation -- religiösa aspekter -- Förenta staterna.
Afro-amerikaner -- historia -- Förenta staterna -- Louisiana -- 1800-talet.
Katholische Kirche.
SUBJECT New Orleans (La.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
New Orleans (La.) -- Church history -- 19th century
Subject Louisiana -- New Orleans
Louisiana
New Orleans, La.
Genre/Form Church history
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1400880173
9781400880171
9780691170848
0691170843