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Chapter 4
Questions:
Explain the following in your own words:
1. Why did dejure segregation happen? What was at stake? Who gained and who lost? Be sure to discuss class and gender differences in connection with these issues.
2. How was the Jim Crow system sustained across time? What was the role of prejudice and racism? Subsistence technology? Law and custom? How was violence used to enforce the system? What organizations were involved in the creation and persistence of segregation?
3. What does it mean to call this system “rigid competitive”? How did it differ from the paternalistic system of slavery?
4. Why did de jure segregation end? What macro-level changes in subsistence technology made segregation untenable? Why?
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