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Jim Crow Terminals: The Desegregation of American Airports - Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South Series Anke Ortlepp
Jim Crow Terminals: The Desegregation of American Airports - Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South Series
Anke Ortlepp
Accounts of racial discrimination in transportation have focused on trains, buses, and streetcars. It is essential to add aeroplanes and airports to this narrative, says Anke Ortlepp. Jim Crow terminals, Ortlepp shows us, were both spatial expressions of sweeping change and sites of confrontation over the re-negotiation of racial identities.
216 pages, 10 black & white images
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | July 1, 2017 |
| ISBN13 | 9780820351216 |
| Publishers | University of Georgia Press |
| Pages | 216 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 10 mm · 365 g |
| Language | English |