{"id":306,"date":"2008-10-28T16:44:47","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T21:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=306"},"modified":"2008-10-28T16:44:47","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T21:44:47","slug":"racial-expulsions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2008\/10\/28\/racial-expulsions\/","title":{"rendered":"Racial Expulsions"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we move closer to what may very well be a milestone in America’s Racial History, it’s instructive to look back on where we came. I’m having my race and politics class look through a brilliant interactive site on racial expulsions<\/a> put together by the Austin American Statesman newspaper in 2006. The investigative journalists working on the series found, along with numerous instances of town expulsions:<\/p>\n

14 countywide expulsions in eight states between 1864 and 1923, in which more than 4,000 blacks were driven out. These are only the most extreme examples of a widespread pattern. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

These expulsions were not pretty sights. Here’s an account from the intro to the Austin American Statesman series of an expulsion in Marshall County, Kentucky:<\/p>\n

vigilantes led by a local doctor posted notices in 1908 telling blacks to leave. When that failed, more than 100 armed and hooded men raided the town of Birmingham, picked about a dozen people at random and tortured them. Nearly two-thirds of the blacks left, and the most recent census showed only 37 blacks among the 30,125 people living in Marshall County.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The series coincided with Elliot Jasper’s 2007 book on racial expulsion entitled Buried in the Bitter Waters<\/a> which details the story of countywide racial expulsions throughout the United States. Here’s an NPR piece<\/a> on racial expulsion in Corbin, Kentucky. the site includes an excerpt from Jasper’s book.<\/p>\n

How do we make sense of this history today? it’s particularly poignant to me to see an African-American candidate for president with a reasonable chance of winning the majority vote in three of the four states featured in the Austin American Statesman piece (Georgia, Indiana, Missouri).<\/p>\n

Which aspect of the interactive series was the most interesting to you and why? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As we move closer to what may very well be a milestone in America’s Racial History, it’s instructive to look back on where we came. I’m having my race and politics class look through a brilliant interactive site on racial expulsions put together by the Austin American Statesman newspaper in 2006. The investigative journalists working […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}