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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: accident of color
    sub title: a story of race in Reconstruction
  name:
    name part: Brook, Daniel
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxiv, 344 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
  abstract: A history of the first civil rights movement and the origins of black and white in America. When we hear "civil rights," we tend to think of the 1950s and 1960s activism that put an end to Jim Crow segregation laws. In The Accident of Color, Daniel Brook takes us to New Orleans and Charleston, where before the Civil War, free, biracial people, sometimes referred to as "browns," exercised many rights of citizenship. During Reconstruction, as a black-white binary displaced that nuanced tripartite system, "browns" made common cause with the formerly enslaved and allies at the fringes of whiteness. Tragically, the significant legal victories they scored together, like desegregating streetcars and schools, were swept away by a fierce backlash, which culminated in the Jim Crow regime. By revisiting a turning point in the evolution of America's racial system, The Accident of Color brings to life a moment from our distant past that illuminates the origins of the racial lies we live by.
  table of contents: Preface: down the memory hole -- Introduction: les ambassadeurs -- Misfit metropolises -- Strange confederates -- Legally black -- Freedom riders -- Progress on parchment -- Browns versus Board of education -- Radical university -- Laws and outlaws -- The great betrayal -- Fade to black and white -- Conclusion: living the lie.
  note: Daniel Brook.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-la
    geographic code: n-us-sc
  subject:
    topic: Racially mixed people
    geographic: Louisiana
    geographic: New Orleans
    topic: Social conditions
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Racially mixed people
    geographic: South Carolina
    geographic: Charleston
    topic: Social conditions
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
    geographic: Louisiana
    geographic: New Orleans
  subject:
    topic: Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
    geographic: South Carolina
    geographic: Charleston
  subject:
    geographic: New Orleans (La.)
    topic: Race relations
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    geographic: Charleston (S.C.)
    topic: Race relations
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Racism
    geographic: Louisiana
    geographic: New Orleans
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Racism
    geographic: South Carolina
    geographic: Charleston
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    geographic: Southern States
    topic: Race relations
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
    genre: Case studies
  classification: F380.R33 B76 2019
  classification: 305.8009763/35
  identifier: 9780393247442
  identifier: 0393247449
  identifier: 2019001184
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190114
    record change date: 20191021075141.0
    record identifier: in00004073787