| Threatening Property: Race, Class, and Campaigns to Legislate Jim Crow Neighborhoods Subjects: African Americans -- Segregation -- North Carolina -- History -- 20th century; Discrimination in housing -- North Carolina -- History -- 20th century; North Carolina -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century; Social classes -- North Carolina -- History; White supremacists determined what African Americans could do and where they could go in the Jim Crow South, but they were less successful in deciding where black people could live because different groups of white supremacists did not agree on the question of residential segregation. In Threatening Property , Elizabeth A. Herbin-Triant investigates early-twentieth-century campaigns for residential segregation laws in North Carolina to show how the version of white supremacy supported by middle-class white people differed from that supported by the elites. Class divides prevented Jim Crow from expanding to the extent that it would require separate neighborhoods for black and white southerners as in apartheid South Africa. Elizabeth A. Herbin-Triant is an associate professor of Black Studies and of History at Amherst College. |