Managing White Supremacy
Subtitle: Race, Politics, and Citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: November 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780807854242
Subjects: Civil rights & citizenship; Ethnography; Multicultural studies; Virginia; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Second World War, 1939-1945; c 1945 to c 1960; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Whites; Civil rights; Race relations; History; History - U.S.; History: American; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; Social History; United States - State & Local - General; History / United States / State & Local; Social Science / African-American Studies; African Americans; Politics and government; Discrimination & Racism; 1865-1950; 20th century; Elite (Social sciences); Political aspects
First sentence: A majority of white Virginians who assumed positions of leadership in the 1920s and 1930s were born into a late-nineteenth-century political culture dominated by chaos, electoral fraud, and racial violence.