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OverviewA history of racism and segregation in twentieth-century Houston and beyond. 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: David Ponton, IIIPublisher: University of Texas Press Imprint: University of Texas Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.594kg ISBN: 9781477328477ISBN 10: 1477328475 Pages: 368 Publication Date: 06 February 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Decades of Capture Captured by Gender Roles: Christia Adair’s Fight for Inclusion Captured by the Rule of Law: Johnnie Lee Morris’s Trouble on the Bus Captured in the Impossible American Dream: Dorothy and Jack Caesar Buy a Home Captured by the Role of Gender: Carter Wesley’s “Frustrating Compromises” and the Establishment of Texas Southern University Captured by Blackness: Prior Tortures and Law Enforcement’s Reign of Terror at Texas Southern University Notes IndexReviewsA deeply researched and illuminating exploration of mid-century civil rights history in Houston…Through his extensive scouring of Black newspapers, NAACP investigations, and other contemporaneous sources, Ponton provides a fascinating window onto how individual Black activists thought about their world. It’s a rigorous study of the ins-and-outs of civil rights activism and a significant contribution to the history of Houston. * Publishers Weekly * Author InformationDavid Ponton III is an assistant professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies at the University of South Florida. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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