The Relationship between Industrialization and White Hostility toward Blacks in Southern Cities: 1865-1910

In: Urban affairs quarterly, Band 25, Heft 2, S. 322-341

Abstract

In this article I examine the relationship between industrialization and the exclusion of southern blacks from cities and occupations between 1865 and 1910—an era dubbed by social historians as the New South. I demonstrate that the interaction of such factors as percentage of blacks, percentage of whites, and white racism played an important role in forcing blacks to participate in a secondary labor market. The findings show that ascriptive judgments often are the rule and not necessarily the exception when industrialization proceeds, populations expand, and racist ideology persists.