Bind Us Apart How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation
Bind Us Apart How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation
- ISBN 13:
9780465018413
- ISBN 10:
0465018416
- Edition: 1st
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 04/26/2016
- Publisher: Basic Books
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Summary
Herein lie the origins of "separate but equal." Decades before Reconstruction, America's liberal elite was unable to imagine how people of color could become citizens of the United States. Throughout the nineteenth century, Native Americans were pushed farther and farther westward, while four million slaves freed after the Civil War found themselves among a white population that had spent decades imagining that they would live somewhere else.
Essential reading for anyone disturbed by America's ongoing failure to achieve true racial integration, Bind Us Apart shows conclusively that "separate but equal" represented far more than a southern backlash against emancipation-it was a founding principle of our nation.