Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 288
Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
978-0-8476-9480-8 • Hardback • January 2000 • $139.00 • (£90.00)
Bobby M. Wilson is associate professor of geography and public affairs, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Chapter 1 1 Introduction: Race and Capitalist Development
Chapter 2 2 The Origins of Racism: Discursive and Material Practices
Chapter 3 3 The State's Role in Sustaining Race-Connected Practices
Chapter 4 4 Capital Restructuring and the Transformation of Race
Chapter 5 5 The Slave Mode of Production
Chapter 6 6 A Regime of Accumulation Based on Slave Labor
Chapter 7 7 Reconstruction
Chapter 8 8 From Slave to Free Black Labor
Chapter 9 9 Development of the Birmingham Regime
Chapter 10 10 Industrialization with Inexpensive Labor
Chapter 11 11 Noncompetitive Labor Segmentation and Laissez-Faire Race Relations
Chapter 12 12 Accommodating the Racial Order: The Rise of Institutionalized Racism
Chapter 13 13 Scientific Management and the Growth of Black/White Competition
Chapter 14 14 The Growth of Corporate Power: The Emergence of Fordism
Chapter 15 15 The Great Depression and the Transformation of the Planter Regime
Chapter 16 16 The New Deal and Blacks
Chapter 17 17 The Southern Shift of Fordismand Entrepreneurial Regimes
Chapter 18 18 Conclusion
Wilson is knowledgeable and insightful.
— CHOICE
This book is destined to make the 'required reading list' on Alabama history.
— The Alabama Review
Merits attention since it poses a direct challenge to the ongoing celebration of difference that pervades our field. . . . A creditable job of summarizing the work of recent leftist scholars who critique postmodernist/poststructuralist fashion.
— Labor History
America's Johannesburg is comprehensive, theoretically-driven, and convincing. America's Johannesburg contributes to the fields of urban studies, geography, and historical sociology by providing a case example of how racial oppression manifests itself in historically and geographically contingent ways. The text will be useful to scholars interested in the micro and macro processes that institutionalized and organized racial inequality in the U.S. southern economy.
— Ethnic and Racial Studies
These two books [America's Johannesburg and Race and Place in Birmingham by Bobby M. Wilson] are extremely important and every urban scholar should read them. Most significant, Wilson has constructed a theoretical and conceptual framework that can be used to study the Black experience across time, as well as at specific moments in time.
— Urban Studies
A fresh and original interpretation. The book contributes substantially to the historiography of industrial growth in Alabama. The author provides much insight into the racial dimensions of Birmingham's development. A pioneering work.
— W. David Lewis, Auburn University
A powerful addition to academic fields as varied as southern studies and Marxian critical theory. Wilson has written a book of uncommon depth. His melding of critical race theory, Marxian critique, and regional analysis is effective and engrossing. Wilson's work is fascinating and well-written.
— Economic Geography