The Land Was Ours, How Black Beaches Became White Wealth in the Coastal South, The University of North Carolina Press, Andrew W. Kahrl,Ethnic Studies/African American Studies,SOCIAL SCIENCE, African Americans; land tenure; property ownership; coastal environments and coastal engineering; beaches and beachfront property; leisure and recreation; capitalism; real estate development; property law; Jim Crow and segregation; racism; economic predation; racial terrorism; southern states; business and entrepreneurship; vacation and tourism industries; black Methodism and African American religion; class relations and stratification in black America; black popular music and performance venues; Army Corps of Engineers; public beaches and parks; drowning deaths; Washington, D.C.; Maryland; Virginia; North Carolina; South Carolina; Mississippi; New Orleans, LA; Atlantic coast; Gulf of Mexico; Potomac River; Chesapeake Bay,, , United States, en-UShttps://uncpress.orgAfrican Americans; land tenure; property ownership; coastal environments and coastal engineering; beaches and beachfront property; leisure and recreation; capitalism; real estate development; property law; Jim Crow and segregation; racism; economic predation; racial terrorism; southern states; business and entrepreneurship; vacation and tourism industries; black Methodism and African American religion; class relations and stratification in black America; black popular music and performance venues; Army Corps of Engineers; public beaches and parks; drowning deaths; Washington, D.C.; Maryland; Virginia; North Carolina; South Carolina; Mississippi; New Orleans, LA; Atlantic coast; Gulf of Mexico; Potomac River; Chesapeake Bay, [BLURB],[CITY],NC,books, ebooks, biblet, Book2look