A Covenant with Color: Race and Social Power in Brooklyn 1636-1990

Craig Steven Wilder

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July, 2000
Paper, 320 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-11907-8
$28.00 / £19.50

Prologue: The Trial of Race

Chapter 1. Race and Social Power: Slavery and the Evolution of an Idea, 1636-1827

Chapter 2. Little Masters: Slavery and the Evolution of a City, 1636-1827

Chapter 3. “Rugged Industries”: The Commercial Revolution in Kings County, 1797-1876

Chapter 4. Irish over Black: The Advent of Bourgeois Democracy in Kings County,

1800-1865

Chapter 5. Hope, Hate, and the Class Struggle: The End of Slavery’s Dominion in the City

of Churches, 1827-1865

Chapter 6. The Legacy of Mastery: The Rise and Prestige of Jim Crow in Brooklyn,

1865-1930

Chapter 7. Fruit of the Class Struggle: Labor Segmentation and Exclusion in Brooklyn,

1865-1950

Chapter 8: The Covenant of Color: Race, Gender, and Defense Work in Brooklyn,

1930-1945

Chapter 9: Vulnerable People, Undesirable Places: The New Deal and the Making of the

Brooklyn Ghetto, 1920-1990

Chapter 10. “A Society suc as our Own”: Education and Labor in the Brooklyn Ghetto,

1950-1990

Epilogue - A Fair Interpretation

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Photo Insert

Related Subjects

• American History
• Cultural Studies
• Race and Ethnicity

Series

• Columbia History of Urban Life

About the Author

Craig Steven Wilder is assistant professor of history and chair of African American Studies at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. He was born and raised in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, where he continues to reside during part of the year.

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