Abstract:

Outside Waco, Texas, a staged train collision from 1896 known as the "Crash at Crush" illuminates how movement and speed formed an organizing principle and perceptual framework for everyday life in the modern New South. After the Civil War, Waco remained unscarred by battles and unphased by Reconstruction. On the promise of starting anew on antebellum terms, white southerners moved to Central Texas in mass migrations that set off a boom in the region's physical and economic development. Looking at directories, city guides, and newspapers, this article traces how white southerners sacralized movement as a racialized privilege that structured their perceptions of their natural, built, and social geographies.

摘要：

在德克萨斯州韦科郊外，1896 年发生的一场名为“Crash at Crush”的分阶段火车相撞事件阐明了运动和速度如何形成现代新南方日常生活的组织原则和感知框架。内战结束后，韦科仍然没有因战斗而伤痕累累，也没有经历过重建。怀着在战前重新开始的承诺，南方白人大规模迁移到德克萨斯州中部，引发了该地区物质和经济发展的繁荣。通过查看目录、城市指南和报纸，这篇文章追溯了南方白人如何将运动神圣化为一种种族化的特权，这种特权构建了他们对自然、建筑和社会地理的看法。