| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.5

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Kent Redding. Making Race, Making Power: North Carolina's Road to Disfranchisement. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2003. Pp. x, 180. $34.95.
Especially poignant, North Carolina's political history in the 1890s embodies both the promise and tragedy of the New South. The only southern state where Republicans and Populists successfully "fused" to oust the Democrats, between 1894 and 1898, North Carolina experienced the venomous white supremacy campaign, forged by Democrats to break the back of the fusionist coalition. After regaining power, they ensured they would never lose it again by ushering in the era of disfranchisement and one-party politics.	1
Although this story has been told many times, from many different angles, sociologist Kent Redding provides a truly fresh perspective. Redding rejects views of disfranchisement as inevitable or simply as the "overwhelming power of one group over another" (p. 1). Instead he places political mobilization at the center of the disfranchisement story. Examining politics through the lens of "new institutionalism," Redding argues that political institutions "constitute and constrain the basic raw materials of politics ... and thus channel political battles in particular ways" (p. 12). Those in control must be viewed "as power makers rather than mere power holders" (p. 2). Redding's innovative approach breathes new life into the North Carolina story and helps answer the niggling question of the timing of disfranchisement.	. . .

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