{"product_id":"9780807861882","title":"Sorting Out the New South City: Race, Class, and Urban Development in Charlotte, 1875-1975","description":"One 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHanchett 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"The University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123706085616,"sku":"9780807861882","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780807861882_p0.jpg?v=1763739896","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780807861882","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}