Tag: The Retreats of Reconstruction

• {Book Attractive} The Retreats of Reconstruction: Race, Leisure, and the Politics of Segregation at the New Jersey Shore, 1865-1920 by:David E. Goldberg

  

  Beginning in the 1880s, the economic realities and class dynamics of popular northern resort towns unsettled prevailing assumptions about political economy and threatened segregationist practices. Exploiting early class divisions, black working-class activists staged a series of successful protests that helped make northern leisure spaces a critical battleground in a larger debate about racial equality. While […]

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  October 1, 2016

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  @FordhamPress, David E. Goldberg, Fordham University Press, Leisure, Race, The Politics of Segregation, The Retreats of Reconstruction