Sorting Out the New South City, Second Edition: Race, Class, and Urban Development in Charlotte, 1875–1975UNC Press Books, 2020 M01 8 - 428 páginas One of the largest and fastest-growing cities in the South, Charlotte, North Carolina, came of age in the New South decades of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, transforming itself from a rural courthouse village to the trading and financial hub of America's premier textile manufacturing region. In this book, Thomas W. Hanchett traces the city's spatial evolution over the course of a century, exploring the interplay of national trends and local forces that shaped Charlotte and, by extension, other New South urban centers. Hanchett argues that racial and economic segregation are not age-old givens but products of a decades-long process. Well after the Civil War, Charlotte's whites and blacks, workers and business owners, lived in intermingled neighborhoods. The rise of large manufacturing enterprises in the 1880s and 1890s brought social and political upheaval, however, and the city began to sort out into a "checkerboard" of distinct neighborhoods segregated by both race and class. When urban renewal and other federal funds became available in the mid-twentieth century, local leaders used the money to complete the sorting-out process, creating a "sector" pattern in which wealthy whites increasingly lived on one side of town and blacks on the other. A new preface by the author confronts the contemporary implications of Charlotte's resegregation and prospects for its reversal. |
Contenido
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2 Habiliments of Progress | 47 |
3 Insolence | 69 |
4 Creating BlueCollar Neighborhoods | 89 |
5 Creating Black Neighborhoods | 115 |
6 Creating WhiteCollar Neighborhoods | 145 |
7 Downtown in the 1900s1920s | 183 |
Debating Annexation and Planning | 205 |
From Patchwork to Sectors | 223 |
Afterword | 257 |
Notes | 265 |
Bibliography | 337 |
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Términos y frases comunes
African American areas August Avenue Bank Biddleville block blue-collar Blythe and Brockmann Boulevard Brent Glass Brooklyn building century Char Charlotte and Mecklenburg Charlotte Chronicle Charlotte City Charlotte Democrat Charlotte Observer Charlotte's Church city directory City Planning city's Company Cotton Mill create deed book Deeds Office Dilworth district downtown dwellings East Trade Street economic elite factory families farmers federal Hanchett Highland Park History of Mecklenburg houses Ibid industrial Jim Crow John Nolen land Latta leaders lotte Mecklenburg County Register Morrill municipal Myers Park National Negro North Carolina North Charlotte North Tryon Street owners pattern Piedmont Piedmont Park planners political racial railroad real estate Register of Deeds Research Report residential residents Road segregation Smith University South Tryon Southern streetcar streetcar suburb subdivisions suburban suburbs Survey and Research textile town trolley urban Washington Heights wealthy West Trade white-collar William Huffman