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Author:

Bottoms, D. Michael, 1966-

Title:

An aristocracy of color : race and reconstruction in California and the West, 1850-1890 / D. Michael Bottoms.

Publisher:

University of Oklahoma Press,

Copyright Date:

c2013

Description:

xiii, 274 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

West (U.S.)--History--History--19th century.
Minorities--West (U.S.)--History--19th century.
African Americans--West (U.S.)--History--19th century.
Chinese Americans--West (U.S.)--History--19th century.
Mexican Americans--West (U.S.)--History--19th century.
California--History--History--19th century.
Minorities--California--History--19th century.
African Americans--California--History--19th century.
Chinese Americans--California--History--19th century.
Mexican Americans--California--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-256) and index.

Contents:

"Every colored man is the victim": race and the right to be heard in California's courts, 1851-1872 -- The apostasy of Henry Huntley Haight: race, reconstruction, and the return of democracy in California, 1865-1870 -- "The most satanic hate": racial segregation and reconstruction in California schools -- "Wa Shing and his tireless fellows": Chinese laundries and the reconstruction of the Chinese race -- "The Chinese must go!": the twin careers of exclusion and expulsion.

Summary:

As historian D. Michael Bottoms shows in An Aristocracy of Color, many white Californians saw in this and other Reconstruction legislation a threat to the fragile racial hierarchy they had imposed on the state's legal system during the 1850s. But nonwhite Californians -- blacks and Chinese in particular -- recognized an unprecedented opportunity to reshape the state's race relations. Drawing on court records, political debates, and eyewitness accounts, Bottoms brings to life the monumental battle that followed.

Series:

Race and culture in the American West ; v. 5.

ISBN:

0806143355 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780806143354 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)797969830

LCCN:

2012023756

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)