{"product_id":"west-of-jim-crow-9780252085253","title":"West of Jim Crow","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAfrican Americans who moved to California in hopes of finding freedom and full citizenship instead faced all-too-familiar racial segregation. As one transplant put it, The only difference between Pasadena and Mississippi is the way they are spelled. From the beaches to streetcars to schools, the Golden Statein contrast to its reputation for toleranceperfected many methods of controlling people of color.\u003cp\u003eLynn M. Hudson deepens our understanding of the practices that African Americans in the West deployed to dismantle Jim Crow in the quest for civil rights prior to the 1960s. Faced with institutionalized racism, black Californians used both established and improvised tactics to resist and survive the state''s color line. Hudson rediscovers forgotten stories like the experimental all-black community of Allensworth, the California Ku Klux Klan''s campaign of terror against African Americans, the bitter struggle to integrate public swimming pools in Pasadena and elsewhere, and segreg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWest of Jim Crow\u003c\/i\u003e explores the surge of violence precipitated by the second iteration of the Ku Klux Klan. . . . Black Californians responded with grassroots activism as they continued to demand access to homeownership, schools, and public spaces. Through the men and women themselves, Hudson provides incredible insight to California's racial battlegrounds.\" --\u003ci\u003ePacific Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Hudson's book illuminates just that: how contestations over public and private spaces as they related to race were tied together through the web of resistance that Black Californians engaged in as they utilized tactics that would become better known in the mid-twentieth century.\" --\u003ci\u003eJournal of American Ethnic History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Outstanding history and an absorbing read. . . . Highly recommended.\" --\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1 Freedom Claims: Reconstructing the Golden State\u003cbr\u003e 2 “This is Our Fair and Our State”: Race Women, Race Men, and the Panama Pacific International Exposition\u003cbr\u003e 3 “The Best Proposition Ever Offered to Negroes in the State”: Building an All-Black Town\u003cbr\u003e 4 A Lesson in Lynching\u003cbr\u003e 5 Burning Down the House: California’s Ku Klux Klan\u003cbr\u003e 6 “The Only Difference Between Pasadena and Mississippi is the Way They Are Spelled”: Swimming in the Southland\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Remembering (and Forgetting) Jim Crow\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400515985751,"sku":"9780252085253","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252085253.jpg?v=1730470873","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/west-of-jim-crow-9780252085253","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}