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050 00 $aE185.93.A8$bG67 1995
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100 1 $aGordon, Fon Louise.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94084729
245 10 $aCaste & class :$bthe black experience in Arkansas, 1880-1920 /$cFon Louise Gordon.
246 3 $aCaste and class
260 $aAthens :$bUniversity of Georgia Press,$c[1995], ©1995.
300 $axiv, 185 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 173-179) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tParadise Lost --$g2.$tPolitical Exclusion, 1890-1920 --$g3.$tThe Rise of Racial Radicalism --$g4.$tClass and Community --$g5.$tStructuring the Community --$g6.$tProsperity and Protest --$g7.$tMigration and War.
520 $aIn this history of African-American society from the end of Reconstruction to the end of World War I, Fon Louise Gordon focuses on dissent within Arkansas's black community. In particular, Gordon studies friction between elites and the agricultural and laboring classes over ideological and procedural aspects of their response to the caste strictures of Jim Crow.
520 8 $aBecause opinions on how to oppose segregation and disfranchisement ran along class lines, Gordon is also able to offer one of the most discerning portrayals to date of that era's black society. It was, Gordon demonstrates, a society apart from mainstream America, yet similar in its stratification.
520 8 $a.
520 8 $aThrough individual profiles and numerous examples, Gordon shows how class within the black community was determined by skin color, family background, and education in combination with such indicators of status as occupation and religious affiliation. At the same time, Caste and Class tells two concurrent and closely linked stories. One story is of the rise, growing self-absorption, and finally flagging influence of Arkansas's first black middle and upper classes.
520 8 $aPrimarily urban, professional, and conservative, these elites were relatively insulated from white oppression and supported the conciliatory race policies of Booker T. Washington. The other story Gordon tells is of the long, arduous emergence of the working classes, which was brought on in part by an exposure to a wider range of opportunities during and after World War I and the birth of the New Negro Movement.
520 8 $aOverwhelmingly rural, these blacks were isolated from black middle-class culture and values and were oriented toward agitation and protest.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$zArkansas$xHistory.
651 0 $aArkansas$xSocial conditions.
852 00 $bglx$hE185.93.A8$iG67 1995