Jim Crow Terminals: The Desegregation of American Airports (Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South Series): 22

by Anke Ortlepp (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2017

  $33.79

  Historical accounts of racial discrimination in transportation have focused on trains, buses, and streetcars and their respective public accommodations. It is essential to add airplanes 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.