Title The crucible of race : Black-white relations in the American South since emancipation / Joel Williamson

Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1984 ©1984

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 561 pages) Contents Part one: Slavery and after, to 1889: The genesis of the organic society. Between two worlds ; The hard-soft period of slavery ; The organic society ; Black culture ; A fusion of cultures and colors -- Black life in the South, 1865-1915. Black reconstruction ; Disengagement and alienation ; The feudalization of Black life ; Nobody's Negro ; Charles W. Chesnutt - Variously Black ; Definition: Washington and Du Bois -- The conservative restoration and the liberal revolt. White reconstruction ; The liberal revolt--paternalism revisited ; Atticus Greene Haygood and churchly liberalism ; George Washington Cable and secular liberalism ; Critiquest of liberalism--New South and old ; Referendum on race ; The Open Letter Club ; Summation -- Part two: The rage of radicalism, 1889-1915: The rise of the radicals. Radical thinking ; Radical thinkers ; Rebecca Latimer Felton: thought and action ; Benjamin Ryan Tillman -- Thomas Dixon and The leopard's spots. The leopard's spots as the radical message ; Thomas Dixon, Jr., a biography ; Thomas Dixon's complaint ; Why Thomas Dixon wrote The leopard's spots and its sequels ; Other radical leaders -- In violence veritas. Popular radicalism ; Lynching ; Rioting ; The Wilmington Riot ; The Robert Charles Riot in New Orleans ; The causes of the Atlanta Riot ; The Atlanta Riot ; Aftermath -- Depoliticalization and the separation of the races. Disfranchisement ; Disfranchisement in Virginia ; Disfranchisement in Oklahoma and elsewhere -- The conservative response to radicalism. The Sledd case ; The Bassett case ; The alienation of the conservative activist ; The retreats of conservativism: education ; The retreats of conservativism: religion ; The retreats of conservativism: conclusion -- The crucible of race. The philosophical dichotomy ; The one-shot style of Southern leadership--with William J. Northen as an exception ; The grit thesis: a class interpretation of extreme racism ; Other radical-conservative dichotomies ; Why some leaders became radicals ; An unreal world: race and sex in the modern South ; The Bible Belt ; The central theme of Southern history ; Consequences -- Part three: The North and the Negro, 1889-1915: The North and the Negro in the South. Northern support of Black schools in the South ; Southern racial missionaries to the North ; Race and reunion ; The Northern capitulation to racism -- Northern Republicans and Southern race relations, 1895-1912. Hanna and McKinley discover separate and equal ; Theodore Roosevelt and Southern politics ; Taft and the Lily-White South ; The demise of Black Republicanism in the South -- Radical swan song : radicalism and conservatism in Washington under Woodrow Wilson. The Wilsonian racial solution ; Radical segregation in the Wilson Administration ; The Black reaction: The NAACP in the nation's capital ; The Black response in the nation at large ; Radicals vs. Conservatives within the Wilson Administration ; The Wilsonian racial settlement -- Part four: Soul folk: The souls of Black folk. Du Bois on Black soul ; Du Boisian thought as Hegelian ; How Du Bois became a Hegelian ; Du Boisian action as Hegelian -- White soul. Edgar Gardner Murphy as a prime spokesman for Volksgeistian conservativism ; Democracy and education in the New South ; The Industrial Revolution in the South: for whites only ; Old South idealism brought into the new ; The white communion ; The new orthodoxy -- Legacy: race relations in the Twentieth-Century South. The white South loses the Black problem ; The paranoid style in the the Twentieth-Century South ; The unreal South ; Southern white liberals in the Twentieth-Century ; The three faces of Eve ; Black breakout ; The conservative resurgence -- Conclusion: The great changeover : an interpretation of white culture and race relations in the American South Summary This landmark work provides a fundamental reinterpretation of the American South in the years since the Civil War, especially the decades after Reconstruction, from 1877 to 1920. Covering all aspects of Southern life--white and black, conservative and progressive, literary and political--it offers a new understanding of the forces that shaped the South of today Analysis United States Southern states African Americans Race relations, 1865-1980 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 523-553) Notes Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO platform, viewed July 20, 2023) Francis Parkman Prize, 1985 Subject African Americans -- Southern States -- History African Americans -- Civil rights -- Southern States Afro-Americans -- Civil rights -- Southern States SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies. African Americans African Americans -- Civil rights Race relations Rassenverhoudingen. Noms -- États-Unis. Noirs -- États-Unis (sud) -- Histoire. Noirs -- Droits -- États-Unis (sud) SUBJECT Southern States -- Race relations Subject Southern States États-Unis (Sud) -- Relations interethniques. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 83024985 ISBN 9780198020493 019802049X 1280522941 9781280522949

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