Sorting Out The New South City: Race, Class, And Urban Development In Charlotte, 1875-1975
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ISBN : 9780807846773
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Sorting Out the New South City: Race, Class, and Urban Development in Charlotte, 1875-1975
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 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, all lived intermingled in a "salt-and-pepper" pattern. 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.
Specifications of Sorting Out the New South City: Race, Class, and Urban Development in Charlotte, 1875-1975
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Author | Thomas W. Hanchett |
Binding | Paperback |
Language | English |
ISBN-10 | 0807846775 |
ISBN-13 | 9780807846773 |
Publisher | The University of North Carolina Press |
Number Of Pages | 404 |
Publication Date | 1998-08-10 |
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Height | 9.1 inch. |
Length | 6 inch. |
Width | 1.1 inch. |
Weight | 1.25 pounds. |
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