To Render Invisible: Jim Crow and Public Life in New South Jacksonville - Softcover

Cassanello, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813062195 ISBN 13: 9780813062198

Verlag: Longleaf Services on behalf of U of Florida Press, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

What defines a city’s public space? Who designates such areas, who determines their uses, and who gets to use them? Robert Cassanello uses rough-and-tumble nineteenth-century Jacksonville as both backdrop and springboard to explore social transformation in Florida and the South. When free black men in the city were first given the right to vote, conservative lawmakers made concerted efforts to drive them out of white public spaces. They attempted to make the public sphere a white domain by rendering blacks voiceless—invisible—in the public square. In response, a black counterpublic developed, flourishing clandestinely at times and openly challenging racism in the public sphere at others.

Fortified by the theories of Henri Lefebvre, David Harvey, and Jürgen Habermas, To Render Invisible is the first book to focus on the tumultuous emergence of African American public life in Jacksonville between Reconstruction and the 1920s. Robert Cassanello brings to light many of the reasons Jacksonville, like Birmingham, Alabama, and other cities throughout the South, continues to struggle with its contentious racial past.

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Robert Cassanello is associate professor of history at the University of Central Florida. He is coeditor of Florida's Working-Class Past: Current Perspectives on Labor, Race, and Gender from Spanish Florida to the New Immigration.

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• Verlag: Longleaf Services on behalf of U of Florida Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0813062195
• ISBN 13: 9780813062198
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 206
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