Andrew W Kahrl
Biographic Data
| ID | 251697 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew W Kahrl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew W |
| FAMILY NAME | Kahrl |
| SIGNATURE | KAHRL A W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Mapping Inequality
A Response to My Readers
First, I want to thank Modern American History co-editors Sarah Snyder and Darren Dochuk for selecting my book for this roundtable and assembling such an incredible group of scholars to read and comment on it. I drew heavily on these readers’ previous works when writing The Black Tax and held up their books as models of the kind of engaging and impactful historical scholarship that I aspired to achieve. Which makes their positive reactions to my …
From Commons to Capital
Dans les décennies qui ont suivi la Seconde Guerre mondiale, l’aménagement des littoraux et des zones riveraines dans le Sud des États-Unis a connu une forte accélération. Si les études existantes ont bien identifié le rôle du tourisme et de l’économie des loisirs dans la transformation économique de la Sunbelt dans l’après-guerre, la question des effets sociaux et environnementaux de l’aménagement des littoraux demeure négligée. À travers le cas…
K atherine F ranke . Repair
Now more than ever, we need powerful renderings of racial injustice in America’s past to counter the comforting lies and distortions peddled by those with a vested interest in maintaining present-day racial inequities. In Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition, Katherine Franke attempts to do just that. She examines the promise and betrayal of emancipation in the post–Civil War South to make the case for reparations for black Americans today.…
Capitalizing on the Urban Fiscal Crisis
Local governments across the United States annually hold tax auctions, in which unpaid property tax bills are sold to investors, who in turn obtain the right to charge interest on those debts or acquire title to tax delinquent property. In Chicago, reforms to Illinois’s tax sales law in 1951 gave rise to a class of investors who reaped millions through fees, interest payments, and, in some cases, acquisition of real estate for the price of a sing…
You Can’t Eat Freedom
The pivotal battles of the civil rights movement in the South took place in the midst of dramatic transformation in the region’s economy. Beginning with New Deal-era policies and programs that incentivized mechanization of southern agriculture, the vast armies of black plantation workers whose cheap labor had generated much of the region’s wealth and whose physical containment and political immobilization formed the basis of Jim Crow suddenly bec…
Investing in Distress
Most states authorize the sale of tax liens (a legal claim against a tax-delinquent property) or deeds to tax delinquent properties by local governments to third parties. As federal and state funding for local governments declined and property tax delinquency rose in the 1970s, cities increasingly auctioned tax liens to generate revenue. Beginning in the 1990s fiscally distressed cities negotiated bulk sales of tax liens to private investors or u…
A History of African Americans on the Water and by the Shore
Research Article| January 01 2016 A History of African Americans on the Water and by the Shore: Whitewashed and Recovered Andrew W. Kahrl Andrew W. Kahrl Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2016) 35 (2): 61–67. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.35.2.0061 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Link…
Catherine Cocks. Tropical Whites
Journal Article Catherine Cocks. Tropical Whites: The Rise of the Tourist South in the Americas. Get access Catherine Cocks. Tropical Whites: The Rise of the Tourist South in the Americas. (Nature and Culture in America.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. Pp. 255. $59.95. Andrew W. Kahrl Andrew W. Kahrl University of Virginia [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Americ…
Fear of an Open Beach
Journal Article Fear of an Open Beach: Public Rights and Private Interests in 1970s Coastal Connecticut Get access Andrew W. Kahrl Andrew W. Kahrl Andrew W. Kahrl is an assistant professor of history and African American studies at the University of Virginia. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 2, September 2015, Pages 433–462, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav39…
Face Value
Journal Article Face Value: The Entwined Histories of Money and Race in America Get access Face Value: The Entwined Histories of Money and Race in America. By Michael O'Malley. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. x, 260 pp. Cloth, $75.00. Paper, $25.00.) Andrew W. Kahrl Andrew W. Kahrl Marquette UniversityMilwaukee, Wisconsin [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Am…
Sunbelt by the Sea
Histories of the Sunbelt have tended to overlook the emergence of leisure and tourism-based economies and their transformative effects on coastal populations and ecosystems. This article follows the demise of Princess Anne County, Virginia, a rural, agricultural county in tidewater Virginia, and the rise of Virginia Beach, the “world’s largest resort city,” from the early twentieth century to the present, as experienced by the African Americans w…
Joining Places
"Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South, by Anthony E. Kaye.." Canadian Journal of History, 44(1), pp. 143–144
The Slightest Semblance of Unruliness
Journal Article "The Slightest Semblance of Unruliness": Steamboat Excursions, Pleasure Resorts, and the Emergence of Segregation Culture on the Potomac River Get access Andrew W. Kahrl Andrew W. Kahrl Andrew W. Kahrl is a doctoral candidate at Indiana University and a fellow at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and American Council of Learned Societies. This essay received the 2007 Louis Pelzer Memorial Award. Search for other works by this author…
The Political Work of Leisure
The latter decades of the nineteenth century witnessed the rise of historic sites as vacation and excursion destinations. Places such as Gettysburg and Mount Vernon, as other scholars have shown, welcomed steady streams of visitors throughout the summer months. At Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, African Americans similarly sought to fashion their own recreational and commemorative destination befitting a "rising race." Wealthy African Americans fro…
Joseph Gerteis, Class and the Color Line
Investing in Distress
Most states authorize the sale of tax liens (a legal claim against a tax-delinquent property) or deeds to tax delinquent properties by local governments to third parties. As federal and state funding for local governments declined and property tax delinquency rose in the 1970s, cities increasingly auctioned tax liens to generate revenue. Beginning in the 1990s fiscally distressed cities negotiated bulk sales of tax liens to private investors or u…
Capitalizing on the Urban Fiscal Crisis
Local governments across the United States annually hold tax auctions, in which unpaid property tax bills are sold to investors, who in turn obtain the right to charge interest on those debts or acquire title to tax delinquent property. In Chicago, reforms to Illinois’s tax sales law in 1951 gave rise to a class of investors who reaped millions through fees, interest payments, and, in some cases, acquisition of real estate for the price of a sing…
Fear of an Open Beach
Journal Article Fear of an Open Beach: Public Rights and Private Interests in 1970s Coastal Connecticut Get access Andrew W. Kahrl Andrew W. Kahrl Andrew W. Kahrl is an assistant professor of history and African American studies at the University of Virginia. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 2, September 2015, Pages 433–462, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav39…
The Slightest Semblance of Unruliness
Journal Article "The Slightest Semblance of Unruliness": Steamboat Excursions, Pleasure Resorts, and the Emergence of Segregation Culture on the Potomac River Get access Andrew W. Kahrl Andrew W. Kahrl Andrew W. Kahrl is a doctoral candidate at Indiana University and a fellow at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and American Council of Learned Societies. This essay received the 2007 Louis Pelzer Memorial Award. Search for other works by this author…
The Political Work of Leisure
The latter decades of the nineteenth century witnessed the rise of historic sites as vacation and excursion destinations. Places such as Gettysburg and Mount Vernon, as other scholars have shown, welcomed steady streams of visitors throughout the summer months. At Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, African Americans similarly sought to fashion their own recreational and commemorative destination befitting a "rising race." Wealthy African Americans fro…
Joseph Gerteis, Class and the Color Line
Joining Places
"Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South, by Anthony E. Kaye.." Canadian Journal of History, 44(1), pp. 143–144
Sunbelt by the Sea
Histories of the Sunbelt have tended to overlook the emergence of leisure and tourism-based economies and their transformative effects on coastal populations and ecosystems. This article follows the demise of Princess Anne County, Virginia, a rural, agricultural county in tidewater Virginia, and the rise of Virginia Beach, the “world’s largest resort city,” from the early twentieth century to the present, as experienced by the African Americans w…
Face Value
Journal Article Face Value: The Entwined Histories of Money and Race in America Get access Face Value: The Entwined Histories of Money and Race in America. By Michael O'Malley. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. x, 260 pp. Cloth, $75.00. Paper, $25.00.) Andrew W. Kahrl Andrew W. Kahrl Marquette UniversityMilwaukee, Wisconsin [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Am…
Catherine Cocks. Tropical Whites
Journal Article Catherine Cocks. Tropical Whites: The Rise of the Tourist South in the Americas. Get access Catherine Cocks. Tropical Whites: The Rise of the Tourist South in the Americas. (Nature and Culture in America.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. Pp. 255. $59.95. Andrew W. Kahrl Andrew W. Kahrl University of Virginia [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Americ…
Fear of an Open Beach
Journal Article Fear of an Open Beach: Public Rights and Private Interests in 1970s Coastal Connecticut Get access Andrew W. Kahrl Andrew W. Kahrl Andrew W. Kahrl is an assistant professor of history and African American studies at the University of Virginia. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 2, September 2015, Pages 433–462, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav39…
A History of African Americans on the Water and by the Shore
Research Article| January 01 2016 A History of African Americans on the Water and by the Shore: Whitewashed and Recovered Andrew W. Kahrl Andrew W. Kahrl Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2016) 35 (2): 61–67. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.35.2.0061 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Link…
Investing in Distress
Most states authorize the sale of tax liens (a legal claim against a tax-delinquent property) or deeds to tax delinquent properties by local governments to third parties. As federal and state funding for local governments declined and property tax delinquency rose in the 1970s, cities increasingly auctioned tax liens to generate revenue. Beginning in the 1990s fiscally distressed cities negotiated bulk sales of tax liens to private investors or u…
Capitalizing on the Urban Fiscal Crisis
Local governments across the United States annually hold tax auctions, in which unpaid property tax bills are sold to investors, who in turn obtain the right to charge interest on those debts or acquire title to tax delinquent property. In Chicago, reforms to Illinois’s tax sales law in 1951 gave rise to a class of investors who reaped millions through fees, interest payments, and, in some cases, acquisition of real estate for the price of a sing…
You Can’t Eat Freedom
The pivotal battles of the civil rights movement in the South took place in the midst of dramatic transformation in the region’s economy. Beginning with New Deal-era policies and programs that incentivized mechanization of southern agriculture, the vast armies of black plantation workers whose cheap labor had generated much of the region’s wealth and whose physical containment and political immobilization formed the basis of Jim Crow suddenly bec…
From Commons to Capital
Dans les décennies qui ont suivi la Seconde Guerre mondiale, l’aménagement des littoraux et des zones riveraines dans le Sud des États-Unis a connu une forte accélération. Si les études existantes ont bien identifié le rôle du tourisme et de l’économie des loisirs dans la transformation économique de la Sunbelt dans l’après-guerre, la question des effets sociaux et environnementaux de l’aménagement des littoraux demeure négligée. À travers le cas…
K atherine F ranke . Repair
Now more than ever, we need powerful renderings of racial injustice in America’s past to counter the comforting lies and distortions peddled by those with a vested interest in maintaining present-day racial inequities. In Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition, Katherine Franke attempts to do just that. She examines the promise and betrayal of emancipation in the post–Civil War South to make the case for reparations for black Americans today.…
A Response to My Readers
First, I want to thank Modern American History co-editors Sarah Snyder and Darren Dochuk for selecting my book for this roundtable and assembling such an incredible group of scholars to read and comment on it. I drew heavily on these readers’ previous works when writing The Black Tax and held up their books as models of the kind of engaging and impactful historical scholarship that I aspired to achieve. Which makes their positive reactions to my …
Mapping Inequality
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