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Author Kahrl, Andrew W., 1978- author.

Title The land was ours : African American beaches from Jim Crow to the Sunbelt South / Andrew W. Kahrl.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource
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Physical Medium polychrome
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : bring back my yesterday -- 1. Corporate ventures -- 2. A sanctuary by the sea -- 3. Building black privatopias -- 4. Surviving the summer -- 5. Family ties -- 6. Spinning sand into gold -- 7. The price we pay for progress -- Epilogue.
Summary The coasts of today's American South feature luxury condominiums, resorts, and gated communities, yet just a century ago, a surprising amount of beachfront property in the Chesapeake, along the Carolina shores, and around the Gulf of Mexico was owned and populated by African Americans. Blending social and environmental history, Andrew W. Kahrl tells the story of African American-owned beaches in the twentieth century. By reconstructing African American life along the coast, Kahrl demonstrates just how important these properties were for African American communities and leisure, as well as for economic empowerment, especially during the era of the Jim Crow South. However, in the wake of the civil rights movement and amid the growing prosperity of the Sunbelt, many African Americans fell victim to effective campaigns to dispossess black landowners of their properties and beaches. Kahrl makes a signal contribution to our understanding of African American landowners and real-estate developers, as well as the development of coastal capitalism along the southern seaboard, tying the creation of overdeveloped, unsustainable coastlines to the unmaking of black communities and cultures along the shore. The result is a skillful appraisal of the ambiguous legacy of racial progress in the Sunbelt.
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Subject African Americans -- Land tenure -- Southern States -- History.
African Americans -- Land tenure.
Southern States.
History.
African Americans.
Land tenure -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History.
Land tenure -- Social aspects.
Land tenure.
Coasts -- Southern States -- History.
Coasts.
Coasts -- Social aspects -- Southern States.
Coasts -- Social aspects.
Coasts -- Economic aspects -- Southern States.
Coasts -- Economic aspects.
Real estate development -- Southern States -- History.
Real estate development.
Real estate development -- Social aspects -- Southern States.
Real estate development -- Social aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
ISBN 9781469628745 (electronic book)
1469628740 (electronic book)
9781469628721