America's Johannesburg: Industrialization and Racial Transformation in BirminghamUniversity of Georgia Press, 2019 M12 1 - 292 pages In some ways, no American city symbolizes the black struggle for civil rights more than Birmingham, Alabama. During the 1950s and 1960s, Birmingham gained national and international attention as a center of activity and unrest during the civil rights movement. Racially motivated bombings of the houses of black families who moved into new neighborhoods or who were politically active during this era were so prevalent that Birmingham earned the nickname “Bombingham.” |
Contents
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The States Role in Sustaining RaceConnected Practices | 17 |
Capital Restructuring and the Transformation of Race | 29 |
The Slave Mode of Production | 39 |
An Extensive Regime of Accumulation Based on Slave Labor | 49 |
Reconstruction | 57 |
From Slave to Free Black Labor | 65 |
Accommodating the Racial Order The Rise of Institutionalized Racism | 153 |
Scientific Management and the Growth of BlackWhite Competition | 167 |
The Growth of Corporate Power The Emergence of Fordism | 183 |
The Great Depression and the Transformation of the Planter Regime | 197 |
The New Deal and Blacks | 213 |
The Southern Shift of Fordism and Entrepreneurial Regimes | 223 |
Conclusion | 231 |
Bibliography | 237 |