Veiled visions : the 1906 Atlanta race riot and the reshaping of American race relations / David Fort Godshalk.

Author/creator Godshalk, David Fort
Format Book
Publication InfoChapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2005.
Descriptionxvi, 365 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
Race riots--Georgia. --Atlanta. --History. --20th century.
Racism--Georgia. --Atlanta. --History. --20th century.
African Americans--Civil rights. --Georgia. --Atlanta. --History. --20th century.
Atlanta (Ga.)--Race relations. --History. --20th century.
Southern States--Race relations. --History. --20th century.
United States--Race relations. --History. --20th century.

Contents Atlanta : junction of everything finest and most foul -- Chivalry's multiple meanings -- Voicing Black manliness -- Testing loyalties and identities in the crucible of riot -- Competing national constructions of manhood and mayhem -- Interracial cooperation's profits and costs -- God, give us men! -- Atlanta's reconstruction and America's racial transformations -- Disfranchisement, disunity, and division -- Building a nation of neighbors -- The ghosts of a riot past.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [291]-347) and index.
LCCN 2005005914
ISBN0807829625 (alk. paper)
ISBN0807856266 (pbk. : alk. paper)