{"product_id":"sorting-out-the-new-south-city-race-class-and-urban-development-in-charlotte-18751975-9780807846773","title":"Sorting Out the New South City: Race, Class, and Urban Development in Charlotte, 1875-1975","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSorting Out the New South City: Race, Class, and Urban Development in Charlotte, 1875-1975\u003c\/strong\u003e by Hanchett, Tom. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780807846773.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the largest and fastest-growing cities in the South, Charlotte, North Carolina, came of age in the New South decades of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, transforming itself from a rural courthouse village to the trading and financial hub of America’s premier textile manufacturing region. In this book, Thomas Hanchett traces the city’s spatial evolution over the course of a century, exploring the interplay of national trends and local forces that shaped Charlotte, and, by extension, other New South urban centers.\n\nHanchett argues that racial and economic segregation are not age-old givens, but products of a decades-long process. Well after the Civil War, Charlotte’s whites and blacks, workers and business owners, all lived intermingled in a “salt-and-pepper” pattern. The rise of large manufacturing enterprises in the 1880s and 1890s brought social and political upheaval, however, and the city began to sort out into a “checkerboard” of distinct neighborhoods segregated by both race and class. When urban renewal and other federal funds became available in the mid- twentieth century, local leaders used the money to complete the sorting out process, creating a “sector” pattern in which wealthy whites increasingly lived on one side of town and blacks on the other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44966706151477,"sku":"ByrdShop_0807846775","price":38.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780807846773_7475e94a-980f-4bc8-b314-749b8a307fe1.jpg?v=1781420328","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/sorting-out-the-new-south-city-race-class-and-urban-development-in-charlotte-18751975-9780807846773","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}