{"id":58108,"date":"2019-05-20T14:38:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T14:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58108"},"modified":"2019-05-20T14:38:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T14:38:51","slug":"separate-the-story-of-plessy-v-ferguson-and-americas-journey-from-slavery-to-segregation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58108","title":{"rendered":"Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Separate: The Story of<\/strong><\/em> Plessy v. Ferguson<\/strong>, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

W. W. Norton<\/a>
\nFebruary 2019
\n624 pages
\n6.6 \u00d7 9.6 in
\nHardcover ISBN 978-0-393-23937-9<\/p>\n

Steve Luxenberg<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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A myth-shattering narrative of how a nation embraced “separation<\/a>” and its pernicious consequences.<\/p>\n

Plessy v. Ferguson<\/em><\/a>, the Supreme Court case synonymous with \u201cseparate but equal<\/a>,\u201d created remarkably little stir when the justices announced their near-unanimous decision on May 18, 1896. Yet it is one of the most compelling and dramatic stories of the nineteenth century, whose outcome embraced and protected segregation, and whose reverberations are still felt into the twenty-first.<\/p>\n

Separate<\/em> spans a striking range of characters and landscapes, bound together by the defining issue of their time and ours\u2014race and equality. Wending its way through a half-century of American history, the narrative begins at the dawn of the railroad age, in the North, home to the nation\u2019s first separate railroad car, then moves briskly through slavery and the Civil War<\/a> to Reconstruction<\/a> and its aftermath, as separation took root in nearly every aspect of American life.<\/p>\n

Award-winning author Steve Luxenberg draws from letters, diaries, and archival collections to tell the story of Plessy v. Ferguson<\/em> through the eyes of the people caught up in the case. Separate<\/em> depicts indelible figures such as the resisters from the mixed-race community of French New Orleans<\/a>, led by Louis Martinet<\/a>, a lawyer and crusading newspaper editor; Homer Plessy\u2019s<\/a> lawyer, Albion Tourg\u00e9e<\/a>, a best-selling author and the country\u2019s best-known white advocate for civil rights; Justice Henry Billings Brown<\/a>, from antislavery New England<\/a>, whose majority ruling endorsed separation; and Justice John Harlan<\/a>, the Southerner from a slaveholding family whose singular dissent cemented his reputation as a steadfast voice for justice.<\/p>\n

Sweeping, swiftly paced, and richly detailed, Separate<\/em> provides a fresh and urgently-needed exploration of our nation\u2019s most devastating divide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A myth-shattering narrative of how a nation embraced “separation” and its pernicious consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,459,1467,369,8,17,20],"tags":[23683,23682,29794,1447,29795,29796,1438,579,29793,757],"class_list":["post-58108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-law","category-louisiana","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-usa","tag-albion-tourgee","tag-albion-w-tourgee","tag-henry-billings-brown","tag-homer-plessy","tag-john-harlan","tag-louis-martinet","tag-new-orleans","tag-plessy-v-ferguson","tag-steve-luxenberg","tag-w-w-norton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58109,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58108\/revisions\/58109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}