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The reconstruction desegregation debate: the politics of equality and the rhetoric of place, 1870-1875
Kirt H. Wilson
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgments (page xi)
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Preface (page xiii)
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Chapter 1: The Symbolic Meaning of Segregation (page 1)
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Segregation before the Reconstruction Era (page 4)
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Reconstruction: The Politics of Equality and the Rhetoric of Place (page 10)
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Chapter 2: The Legislative History of the 1875 Civil Rights Act (page 17)
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The Origins of National Desegregation (page 18)
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The Congressional Debates of 1874 (page 23)
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The Fall Election of 1874 (page 36)
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The Congressional Debates of 1875 (page 37)
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The Civil Rights Act in the Post-Reconstruction Era (page 42)
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Chapter 3: The Politics of Equality in Charles Sumner's Prophetic Vision (page 47)
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The Tumultuous Career of Charles Sumner (page 48)
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Sumner's Politics of Equality (page 56)
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Chapter 4: Black Equality and the Civil Rights Act of 1875 (page 77)
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The First Voice: White Supremacy and Black Inferiority (page 78)
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The Second Voice: The Rhetoric of Black Equality (page 86)
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The Third Voice: The Moderate Democrats' Rhetoric of Place (page 108)
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Chapter 5: Expediency Arguments and the Civil Rights Act of 1875 (page 121)
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Deliberative Rhetoric and the Issue of Expediency (page 122)
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A Question of Need: Definitions of the Situation (page 123)
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Evaluating the Bill's Consequences (page 133)
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The Substantial Patterns of Place versus the Formal Patterns of Equality (page 144)
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Chapter 6: Constitutional Arguments and the Civil Rights Act of 1875 (page 151)
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Reconstruction Constitutional Politics: Setting the Stage for Desegregation (page 152)
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The 1870s Civil Rights Debate: Two Versions of the Constitution (page 159)
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The Discursive Structure of Constitutional Meaning (page 172)
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Chapter 7: The Triumph of Place over Equality (page 183)
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The Reconstruction of America's Political Culture (page 184)
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The Triumph of the Rhetoric of Place (page 193)
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Epilogue (page 197)
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Appendix A: The Civil Rights Act of 1875 (page 201)
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Notes (page 205)
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Selected Bibliography (page 249)
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Index (page 267)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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JAH | 90.4 (Mar. 2004): 1459-1460 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3660404 |
RKHS | 101.1/2 (Winter/Spring 2003): 154-156 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/23384540 |
HTE | 37.1 (Nov. 2003): 138-139 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/1555620 |
RPA | 7.1 (Spring 2004): 91-93 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/41939892 |
AHR | 109.3 (Jun. 2004): 920 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/530628 |
Citable Link
Published: c2002
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
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