Jim Crow Terminals: The Desegregation of American Airports - Couverture souple

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Ortlepp, Anke

 
9780820351216: Jim Crow Terminals: The Desegregation of American Airports
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ISBN 10 : 0820351210 ISBN 13 : 9780820351216
Editeur : University of Georgia Press, 2017

Synopsis

Historical accounts of racial discrimination in transportation have focused until now on trains, buses, and streetcars and their respective depots, terminals, stops, and other public accommodations. It is essential to add airplanes and airports to this narrative, says Anke Ortlepp. Air travel stands at the center of the twentieth century’s transportation revolution, and airports embodied the rapidly mobilizing, increasingly prosperous, and cosmopolitan character of the postwar United States. When segregationists inscribed local definitions of whiteness and blackness onto sites of interstate and even international transit, they not only brought the incongruities of racial separation into sharp relief but also obligated the federal government to intervene. Ortlepp looks at African American passengers; civil rights organizations; the federal government and judiciary; and airport planners, architects, and managers as actors in shaping aviation’s legal, cultural, and built environments. She relates the struggles of black travelers—to enjoy the same freedoms on the airport grounds that they enjoyed in the aircraft cabin—in the context of larger shifts in the postwar social, economic, and political order. Jim Crow terminals, Ortlepp shows us, were both spatial expressions of sweeping change and sites of confrontation over the renegotiation of racial identities. Hence, this new study situates itself in the scholarly debate over the multifaceted entanglements of “race” and “space.”

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À propos de l?auteur

ANKE ORTLEPP is a professor of British and American history at the University of Kassel. Her books include Germans and African Americans: Two Centuries of Exchange, coedited with Larry A. Greene.

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Éditeur
University of Georgia Press
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0820351210
ISBN 13 
9780820351216
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
222
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9780820350936: Jim Crow Terminals: The Desegregation of American Airports

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ISBN 10 :  0820350931 ISBN 13 :  9780820350936
Editeur : University of Georgia Press, 2017
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