Article ID: CBB141875950

Cycling on the Color Line: Race, Technology, and Bicycle Mobilities in the Early Jim Crow South, 1887–1905 (October 2021)

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The safety bicycle arrived in the U.S. South in the middle of a transition from relative African American freedom following the Civil War to a reassertion of white hegemony in the region. This article examines how white and African American southerners interpreted the meanings and practices of the safety bicycle through a contingent spatial and mobility politics found at the intersection of race and technology. For African Americans, the bicycle was both a symbolic and real opportunity to express modern freedoms at the moment those freedoms were being curtailed. The South, however, was not the only region of the world where the politics of race shaped bicycle mobilities, and this article points to the ways the southern experience of bicycle technology mirrors but does not necessarily replicate places beyond the United States.

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Authors & Contributors
Oldenziel, Ruth
Henk-Jan Dekker
Knight, R. J.
Mooney, Katherine C.
Friss, Evan
Hoffmann, Melody L.
Concepts
Cycling
Bicycles
Land transportation
African Americans
Mobility
Race
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
21st century
20th century, early
Places
United States
Southern states (U.S.)
Great Britain
Netherlands
Europe
China
Institutions
League of American Wheelmen
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