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Item specifics
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- Educational Level
- Adult & Further Education
- Level
- Advanced
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- ISBN
- 9780806143354
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN-10
0806143355
ISBN-13
9780806143354
eBay Product ID (ePID)
143620899
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
296 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Aristocracy of Color : Race and Reconstruction in California and the West, 1850-1890
Subject
Minority Studies, Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies, Discrimination & Race Relations, Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year
2013
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science
Series
Race and Culture in the American West Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
21.8 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2012-023756
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
An
Reviews
"Bottoms brings exploration of Reconstruction and changing attitudes about race westward. . . . This is a highly interesting story, and Bottoms tells it well." -- Elliott West, author of The Essential West: Collected Essays
Series Volume Number
5
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
305.800978
Synopsis
As historian D. Michael Bottoms shows in An Aristocracy of Color , many white Californians saw Reconstruction legislation a threat to the fragile racial hierarchy they had imposed on the state's legal system during the 1850s. But nonwhite Californians--blacks and Chinese in particular--recognized an unprecedented opportunity to reshape the state's race relations. Drawing on court records, political debates, and eyewitness accounts, Bottoms brings to life the monumental battle that followed., In the South after the Civil War, the reassertion of white supremacy tended to pit white against black. In the West, by contrast, a radically different drama emerged, particularly in multiracial, multiethnic California. State elections in California to ratify Reconstruction-era amendments to the U.S. Constitution raised the question of whether extending suffrage to black Californians might also lead to the political participation of thousands of Chinese immigrants. As historian D. Michael Bottoms shows in An Aristocracy of Color , many white Californians saw in this and other Reconstruction legislation a threat to the fragile racial hierarchy they had imposed on the state's legal system during the 1850s. But nonwhite Californians--blacks and Chinese in particular--recognized an unprecedented opportunity to reshape the state's race relations. Drawing on court records, political debates, and eyewitness accounts, Bottoms brings to life the monumental battle that followed. Bottoms begins by analyzing white Californians' mid-century efforts to prohibit nonwhite testimony against whites in court. Challenges to these laws by blacks and Chinese during Reconstruction followed a trajectory that would be repeated in later contests. Each minority challenged the others for higher status in court, at the polls, in education, and elsewhere, employing stereotypes and ideas of racial difference popular among whites to argue for its own rightful place in "civilized" society. Whites contributed to the melee by occasionally yielding to blacks in order to keep the Chinese and California Indians at a disadvantage. These dynamics reverberated in other state legal systems throughout the West in the mid- to late 1800s and nationwide in the twentieth century. As An Aristocracy of Color reveals, Reconstruction outside of the South briefly promised an opportunity for broader equality but in the end strengthened and preserved the racial hierarchy that favored whites.
LC Classification Number
F596.2.B68 2013
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