Mixing bodies and minds
Race, class and ‘mixed schooling’ controversies in New Orleans and Atlanta, 1874–87
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10342187 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joseph O Jewell (0000-0002-2866-3186, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 25-45 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Patterns of Prejudice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-322X • E-ISSN: 1461-7331 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0031322x.2013.877700 |
| OpenAlex | W2049668927 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Educational access was central in the racial inscription of class identities in the late nineteenth century. In Atlanta and New Orleans, white newspapers, politicians and ordinary citizens launched vigorous campaigns against integrated schools, which resulted in limited access to elite public schooling for upwardly mobile Blacks. Jewell's study analyses these cases to explore social reproduction as a link between race and class as social structures. Whites in both cities used the concept of miscegenation, or racial mixing, to define Blacks' access to elite cultural knowledge and social networks as a violation of the colour line. Jewell argues that analyses of racial formation should give attention to discursive links between race and class in struggles over social reproduction because maintaining racial hierarchies in periods of social change requires constructing new cultural narratives that reproduce economic dominance over racial minorities
Art · Atlanta · Desegregation · Elite · Middle class · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Reproduction · Social class · Sociology · White (mutation · American History and Culture · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society
| Citations per year | 0.3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2018 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |