Sorting Out the New South City Race Class and Urban Development in Charlotte 1875 1975 2nd Edition by Tom Hanchett ISBN 9781469656458 1469656450

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ISBN 10: 1469656450

ISBN 13:  9781469656458

Author:  Tom Hanchett

 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.

Table of contents: 

1. The Preindustrial City

2. Habiliments of Progress

3. Insolence

4. Creating Blue-Collar Neighborhoods

5. Creating Black Neighborhoods

6. Creating White-Collar Neighborhoods

7. Downtown in the 1900s-1920s

8. The Limits of Local Government: Debating Annexation and Planning

9. The Federal City: From Patchwork to Sectors

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