Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/RYTAZWe Sorting Out the New South City Race, Class, and Urban Development in Charlotte, 1875-1975 By: Thomas W. Hanchett Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press Print ISBN: 9780807846773, 0807846775 eText ISBN: 9780807861882, 080786188X Format: EPUB Available from $ 29.99 USD SKU 9780807861882 One of the largest and fastest-growing cities in the South, Charlotte, North Carolina, came of age in the New South decades of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, transforming itself from a rural courthouse village to the trading and financial hub of America's premier textile manufacturing region. In this book, Thomas Hanchett traces the city's spatial evolution over the course of a century, exploring the interplay of national trends and local forces that shaped Charlotte, and, by extension, other New South urban centers. Hanchett argues that racial and economic segregation are not age-old givens, but products of a decades-long process. Well after the Civil War, Charlotte's whites and blacks, workers and business owners, all lived intermingled in a salt-and-pepper pattern. The rise of large manufacturing enterprises in the 1880s and 1890s brought social and political upheaval, however, and the city began to sort out into a checkerboard of distinct neighborhoods segregated by both race and class. When urban renewal and other federal funds became available in the mid- twentieth century, local leaders used the money to complete the sorting out process, creating a sector pattern in which wealthy whites increasingly lived on one side of town and blacks on the other. Additional ISBNs 9780807823767, 0807823767
