Houston and the permanence of segregation : an Afropessimist approach to urban history /

Houston and the permanence of segregation : an Afropessimist approach to urban history /

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Author / Creator:	Ponton, David, III, author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Austin : University of Texas Press, 2024.
Description:	ix, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Series:	Jack and Doris Smothers series in Texas history, life, and culture Jack and Doris Smothers series in Texas history, life, and culture.
Subject:	Black people -- Segregation -- Texas -- Houston -- History. Black people -- Segregation -- Texas -- Houston -- Historiography. Black people -- Civil rights -- Texas -- Houston -- History. Racism against Black people -- Texas -- Houston -- History. Black people -- Segregation -- United States -- Cases. Black people -- Civil rights -- United States -- Cases. Black people -- Texas -- Houston -- Social conditions -- History. Afropessimism (Philosophy) Houston (Tex.) -- Social conditions -- History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13387581

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ISBN:	9781477328477 1477328475 9781477328484 1477328483 9781477328491 1477328491
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Through the 1950s and beyond, the Supreme Court issued decisions that appeared to provide immediate civil rights protections to racial minorities as it relegated Jim Crow to the past. For black Houstonians who had been hoping and actively fighting for what they called a "raceless democracy," these postwar decades were often seen as decades of promise. In Houston and the Permanence of Segregation, David Ponton argues that these were instead "decades of capture": times in which people were captured and constrained by gender and race, by faith in the law, by antiblack violence, and even by the narrative structures of conventional histories. Bringing the insights of Black studies and Afropessimism to the field of urban history, Ponton explores how gender roles constrained thought in black freedom movements, how the "rule of law" compelled black Houstonians to view injustice as a sign of progress, and how antiblack terror undermined Houston's narrative of itself as a "heavenly" place. Today, Houston is one of the most racially diverse cities in the United States, and at the same time it remains one of the most starkly segregated. Ponton's study demonstrates how and why segregation has become a permanent feature in our cities and offers powerful tools for imagining the world otherwise"--

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