Race, Class, and Urban Development in Charlotte, 1875-1975
Paperback
Publication Date: 31/08/1998
One of the largest and fastest-growing cities in the South, Charlotte, North Carolina, came of age in the New South decades of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, transforming itself from a rural courthouse village to the trading and financial hub of America's premier textile manufacturing region. In this book, Thomas Hanchett traces the city's spatial evolution over the course of a century, exploring the interplay of national trends and local forces that shaped Charlotte, and, by extension, other New South urban centers. Hanchett argues that racial and economic segregation are not age-old givens, but products of a decades-long process. Well after the Civil War, Charlotte's whites and blacks, workers and business owners, all lived intermingled in a ""salt-and-pepper"" pattern. The rise of large manufacturing enterprises in the 1880s and 1890s brought social and political upheaval, however, and the city began to sort out into a ""checkerboard"" of distinct neighborhoods segregated by both race and class. When urban renewal and other federal funds became available in the mid- twentieth century, local leaders used the money to complete the sorting out process, creating a ""sector"" pattern in which wealthy whites increasingly lived on one side of town and blacks on the other. |Traces the spatial evolution of Charlotte, NC, from 1875 to 1975 exploring the national and local influences that brought about racial and economic segregation.
- ISBN:
- 9780807846773
- 9780807846773
- Category:
- Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 31-08-1998
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 404
- Dimensions (mm):
- 235x156x24mm
- Weight:
- 0.61kg
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