{"product_id":"life-in-a-black-community-striving-for-equal-citizenship-in-annapolis-maryland-1902-1952-9781793605429","title":"Life in a Black Community: Striving for Equal","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLife in a Black Community: Striving for Equal Citizenship in Annapolis, Maryland, 1902-1952 tells the story of a struggle over what it meant to be a citizen of a democracy. For blacks, membership in a democracy meant full and equal participation in the life of the town. For most whites, it meant the full participation of only its white citizens, based on the presumption that their black neighbors were less than equal citizens and had to be kept down. All the dramas of the Jim Crow era—lynching, the KKK, and disenfranchisement, but also black boycotts, petitioning for redress of grievances, lawsuits, and political activism—occurred in Annapolis. As they were challenging white prejudice and discrimination, tenacious black citizens advanced themselves and enriched their own world of churches, shops, clubs, and bars. It took grit for black families to survive. As they pressed on, life slowly improved—for some. Life in a Black Community recounts the tactics blacks used to gain equal rights, details the methods whites employed to deny or curtail their rights, and explores a range of survival and advancement strategies used by black families.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘We made room for ourselves’ (p. xii). This one sentence captures the essence of Hannah Jopling’s Life in a Black Community, a historical ethnography that examines how black residents interacted with the white community in the borderstate town of Annapolis, Maryland, from 1902 to 1952, negotiating and demanding their rights as citizens through various individual and collective efforts…. [T]he book overall is a valuable contribution to research focused on the relationship between citizenship and race…. What is striking about Life in a Black Community is the various ways it can be used in classes and for research on education, race, racism, citizenship, class, community organizing, Jim Crow, and resistance. Many of the examples of ‘striving for equal citizenship’ that Jopling uses to support her argument can still be seen today, making this historical ethnography soberingly timely and a sad reminder about the ways history reproduces itself when lessons are not learned and enacted. * American Anthropologist *\u003cbr\u003eHere, in Life in a Black Community, is the invisible third of Annapolis. Here is the African America that made the city. It is never seen by historians or preservationists because it is not in official records or great buildings, but is in the ordinary: newspapers and in the ground as archaeology. This is the third that has been regarded as disposable along with the ground where it is buried and in the newspapers printed to be discarded. -- Mark P. Leone, University of Maryland, College Park\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003ePublisher’s Note\u003cbr\u003ePart I “There was so much due us.”\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1 Encounter, A Baseball Game, 1902\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2 Bird’s-Eye View 1902-1905\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3Struggles, 1902-1905\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4 Own Worlds, 1902-1952\u003cbr\u003ePart II “They took advantage of small opportunities and enlarged them.” \u003cbr\u003eChapter 5Encounter, A Hanging, 1919\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6A Bird’s-Eye View, 1905-1919\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7Struggles, 1905-1919\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8Own Worlds, 1905-1919\u003cbr\u003ePart III “We made room.” \u003cbr\u003eChapter 9Encounter, A Lawsuit, 1938-1940\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10Bird’s-Eye View, 1919-1940\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11Struggles, 1919-1940\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12Own Worlds, 1919-1940\u003cbr\u003ePart IV “We wanted what we saw whites had.”\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13Encounter, A Parade, 1949\u003cbr\u003eChapter 14Bird’s-eye View, 1940-1949\u003cbr\u003eChapter 15Struggles, 1940-1949\u003cbr\u003eChapter 16Own Worlds, 1940-1949\u003cbr\u003ePart V “This was the development stage.” \u003cbr\u003eChapter 17Encounter, A Demolition, 1952\u003cbr\u003eChapter 18Bird’s-Eye View, 1949-1952\u003cbr\u003eChapter 19Struggles, 1949-1952\u003cbr\u003eChapter 20Own Worlds, 1949-1952\u003cbr\u003eChapter 21Conclusion\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Author\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042616050007,"sku":"9781793605429","price":33.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781793605429.jpg?v=1750954865","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/life-in-a-black-community-striving-for-equal-citizenship-in-annapolis-maryland-1902-1952-9781793605429","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}