Making Race, Making Power
Subtitle: North Carolina's Road to Disfranchisement
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: May 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780252028083
Subjects: POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; North Carolina - State Government; U.S. Practical Politics; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; USA; Government - State & Provincial; Minority Studies - Race Relations; Political Process - Elections; History / United States / 19th Century; Political Process - General; African Americans; Democratic Party (N.C.); History; North Carolina; Power (Social sciences); Suffrage
First sentence: This chapter attempts to gauge the basic parameters of the franchise in the South by analyzing southern voter turnout between 1880, prior to most disfranchisement regulation, and 1912, after basic forms of disfranchisement had been implemented in every southern state.
Description: "In this work, Kent Redding examines the fluid political landscape of the nineteenth-century South, revealing the complex interplay between the elites' manipulation of political and racial identity and the innovative mobilizing strategies marginalized groups adopted to combat disfranchisement." "Redding reveals how the ruling class operated with motivations and methods very similar to those of the black voters and Populist farmers they fought against. He deftly tracks how the elites co-opted the innovative mobilizing strategies of the subaltern groups to effectively use their own weapons against them."--Jacket.