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The Retreats of Reconstruction: Race, Leisure, and the Politics of Segregation at the New Jersey Shore, 1865-1920 (Reconstructing America)

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Beginning within the 1880s, the commercial realities and sophistication 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 a hit protests that helped make northern leisure spaces a essential battleground in a bigger debate about racial equality. Even as some scholars emphasize the triumph of black consumer activism with defeating segregation, Goldberg argues that the quite a lot of consumer ideologies that first surfaced in northern leisure spaces all over the Reconstruction era contained desegregation efforts and prolonged Jim Crow.

Combining intellectual, social, and cultural history, The Retreats of Reconstruction examines how these decisions helped popularize the doctrine of “separate but equal” and explains why the politics of consumption is essential to figuring out the “long civil rights movement.”

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