Sherry Lamb Schirmer

Broschiertes Buch

A City Divided

The Racial Landscape of Kansas City, 1900-1960

Beschreibung

Addresses the emergence of ghettos alongside the formative issues of race, gender, segregation, and the origins of white ideologies in the urban Midwest. 1930s Kansas City maintained a system of racial exclusion by claiming that segregation was necessary to prevent racial violence. At the same time, a new perception emerged among white liberals that integration would produce a better society by transforming human character.

Autor

Sherry Lamb Schirmer is Associate Professor of History at Avila College in Kansas City, Missouri. She is the author of Milestones: A History of the Kansas Highway Commission and the Department of Transportation and At the River's Bend: An Illustrated History of Kansas City, Independence, and Jackson County.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Missouri Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780826220950
• ISBN-10: 0826220959
• Artikelnr.: 44215575