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Book

Chocolate City : a history of race and democracy in the nation's capital

Call Number

  • 305.8 A812 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]

Physical Description

xii, 609 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Contents

  • Always a Chocolate City
  • Your coming is not for trade, but to invade my people and possess my country: a native American world under siege, 1608-1790
  • Of slaving blacks and democratic whites: building a capital of slavery and freedom, 1790-1815
  • Our boastings of liberty and equality are mere mockeries: confronting contradictions in the nation's capital, 1815-1836
  • Slavery must die: the turbulent end to human bondage in Washington, 1836-1862
  • Emancipate, enfranchise, educate: freedom and the hope of interracial democracy, 1862-1869
  • Incapable of self-government: the retreat from democracy, 1869-1890
  • National show town: building a modern, prosperous, and segregated capital, 1890-1912
  • There is a new Negro to be reckoned with: segregation, war, and a new spirit of black militancy, 1912-1932
  • Washington is a giant awakened: community organizing in a booming city, 1932-1945
  • Segregation does not die gradually of itself: Jim Crow's collapse, 1945-1956
  • How long? How long?: mounting frustration within the black majority, 1956-1968
  • There's gonna be flames, there's gonna be fighting, there's gonna be rebellion!: the tumult and promise of Chocolate City, 1968-1978
  • Perfect for Washington: Marion Barry and the rise and fall of Chocolate City, 1979-1994
  • Go home rich white people: Washington becomes wealthier and whiter, 1995-2010
  • That must not be true of tomorrow: history, race, and democracy in a new moment of racial flux.

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