Making the Modern South – serie
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37 produkter
Southern Modernist
Arthur Raper from the New Deal to the Cold War
Inbunden, 2006
662 kr
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Louis Mazzari brings to the fore one of the most important figures of the southern regionalist movement in the New Deal era. His is the first biography of Arthur Raper, a progressive sociologist, writer, and public intellectual who advocated racial and social justice in the South when such views …
White Masculinity in the Recent South
Av Trent Watts
Inbunden, 2008
527 kr
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From antebellum readers avidly consuming stories featuring white southern men as benevolent patriarchs, hell-raising frontiersmen, and callous plantation owners to post--Civil War southern writers seeking to advance a model of southern manhood and male authority as honorable, dignified, and …
Race, Labor, and Civil Rights
Griggs Versus Duke Power and the Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity
Inbunden, 2008
527 kr
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In 1966, thirteen black employees of the Duke Power Company's Dan River Plant in Draper, North Carolina, filed a lawsuit against the company challenging its requirement of a high school diploma or a passing grade on an intelligence test for internal transfer or promotion. In the groundbreaking …
Rationing Justice
Poverty Lawyers and Poor People in the Deep South
Av Kris Shepard
Häftad, 2009
402 kr
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Established in 1964, the federal Legal Services Program (later, Corporation) served a vast group of Americans desperately in need of legal counsel: the poor. In Rationing Justice, Kris Shepard looks at this pioneering program's effect on the Deep South, as the poor made tangible gains in cases …
Thomas Dixon Jr. and the Birth of Modern America
Av Michele K. Gillespie, Randal L. Hall
Häftad, 2009
353 kr
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A sweeping yet rigorous analysis of Dixon and his work. The collection approaches the southern intellectual through multiple methodologies - from literary theory and film studies to social history and religious studies. We get an exhaustive yet diverse perspective on Dixon's influence and legacy."" …
Delaying the Dream
Southern Senators and the Fight Against Civil Rights, 1938-1965
Häftad, 2010
402 kr
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Few historical events lend themselves to such a sharp delineation between right and wrong as does the civil rights struggle. Consequently, many historical accounts of white resistance to civil rights legislation emphasise the ferocity of the opposition, from the Ole Miss riots to the depredations …
Sustaining Southern Identity
Douglas Southall Freeman and Memory in the Modern South
Inbunden, 2011
603 kr
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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Douglas Southall Freeman, perhaps more than any other writer in the first half of the twentieth century, helped shape and sustain a collective identity for white southerners. A journalist, lecturer, radio broadcaster, and teacher of renown, Freeman wrote and spoke …
Troubled Commemoration
The American Civil War Centennial, 1961-1965
Häftad, 2011
344 kr
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In 1957, Congress voted to set up the United States Civil War Centennial Commission. A federally funded agency within the Department of the Interior, the commission's charge was to oversee preparations to commemorate the one-hundredth anniversary of the central event in the Republic's history. …
Ongoing Burden of Southern History
Politics and Identity in the Twenty-First-Century South
Av Angie Maxwell, Todd Shields m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
527 kr
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More than fifty years after its initial publication, C. Vann Woodward's landmark work, The Burden of Southern History, remains an essential text on the southern past. Today, a ""southern burden"" still exists, but its shape and impact on southerners and the world varies dramatically from the one …
Gendered Politics in the Modern South
The Susan Smith Case and the Rise of a New Sexism
Inbunden, 2012
543 kr
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In the fall of 1994 Susan Smith, a young mother from Union, South Carolina, reported that an African American male carjacker had kidnapped her two children. The news sparked a multi-state investigation and evoked nationwide sympathy. Nine days later, she confessed to drowning the boys in a nearby …
Jim Crow's Counterculture
The Blues and Black Southerners, 1890-1945
Av R. A. Lawson
Häftad, 2013
402 kr
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In the late nineteenth century, black musicians in the lower Mississippi Valley, chafing under the social, legal, and economic restrictions of Jim Crow, responded with a new musical form, the blues. In Jim Crow's Counterculture, R. A. Lawson offers a cultural history of blues musicians in the …
Campaign of Quiet Persuasion
How the College Board Desegregated SAT® Test Centers in the Deep South, 1960-1965
Inbunden, 2013
527 kr
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In 1960, the College Entrance Examination Board became an unexpected participant in the movement to desegregate education in the South. Working with its partner, Educational Testing Services, the College Board quietly integrated its Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) centers throughout the Deep South. …
Black Freedom, White Resistance, and Red Menace
Civil Rights and Anticommunism in the Jim Crow South
Inbunden, 2014
587 kr
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In Black Freedom, White Resistance, and Red Menace, Yasuhiro Katagiri offers the first scholarly work to illuminate an important but largely unstudied aspect of U.S. civil rights history - the collaborative and mutually beneficial relationship between professional anti-Communists in the North and …
New Orleans on Parade
Tourism and the Transformation of the Crescent City
Häftad, 2013
403 kr
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New Orleans on Parade tells the story of the Big Easy in the twentieth century. In this urban biography, J. Mark Souther explores the Crescent City's architecture, music, food and alcohol, folklore and spiritualism, Mardi Gras festivities, and illicit sex commerce in revealing how New Orleans …
Transforming the South
Federal Development in the Tennessee Valley, 1915-1960
Inbunden, 2014
585 kr
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Historians have long recognised the middle of the twentieth century as significant in the history of the modern South, owing to a convergence of social change, political realignment, and cultural expansion. This period in southern history has provided extensive material for scholars of race, …
Senator James Eastland
Mississippi's Jim Crow Democrat
Inbunden, 2015
603 kr
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In the years following World War II, the national Democratic Party aligned its agenda more and more with the goals of the civil rights movement. By contrast, a majority of southern Democrats remained as committed as ever to a traditional, segregationist ideology. Through the career of Senator James …
Race and Education in North Carolina
From Segregation to Desegregation
Inbunden, 2015
512 kr
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The separation of white and black schools remained largely unquestioned and unchallenged in North Carolina for the first half of the twentieth century, yet by the end of the 1970s, the Tar Heel State operated the most thoroughly desegregated school system in the nation. In Race and Education in …
Haunted by Atrocity
Civil War Prisons in American Memory
Häftad, 2016
402 kr
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During the Civil War, approximately 56,000 Union and Confederate soldiers died in enemy military prison camps. Even in the midst of the war's shocking violence, the intensity of the prisoners' suffering and the brutal manner of their deaths provoked outrage, and both the Lincoln and Davis …
Delta Empire
Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South
Häftad, 2016
344 kr
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In Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South Jeannie Whayne employs the fascinating history of a powerful plantation owner in the Arkansas delta to recount the evolution of southern agriculture from the late nineteenth century through World War II.After his …
Maintaining Segregation
Children and Racial Instruction in the South, 1920-1955
Inbunden, 2017
574 kr
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In Maintaining Segregation, LeeAnn G. Reynolds explores how black and white children in the early twentieth-century South learned about segregation in their homes, schools, and churches. As public lynchings and other displays of racial violence declined in the 1920s, a culture of silence developed …
Petroleum and Public Safety
Risk Management in the Gulf South, 1901-2015
Inbunden, 2018
645 kr
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Throughout the twentieth century, cities such as Houston, Galveston, New Orleans, and Mobile grappled with the safety hazards created by oil and gas industries as well as the role municipal governments should play in protecting the public from these threats. James B. McSwain's Petroleum and Public …
Resisting Equality
The Citizens' Council, 1954-1989
Inbunden, 2018
572 kr
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In Resisting Equality Stephanie R. Rolph examines the history of the Citizens' Council, an organisation committed to coordinating opposition to desegregation and black voting rights. In the first comprehensive study of this racist group, Rolph follows the Citizens' Council from its establishment in …
Race and Education in New Orleans
Creating the Segregated City, 1764-1960
Av Walter Stern
Inbunden, 2018
585 kr
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Surveying the two centuries that preceded Jim Crow's demise, Race and Education in New Orleans traces the course of the city's education system from the colonial period to the start of school desegregation in 1960. This timely historical analysis reveals that public schools in New Orleans both …
Creating a Progressive Commonwealth
Women Activists, Feminism, and the Politics of Social Change in Virginia, 1970s-2000s
Inbunden, 2018
585 kr
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Building upon the work of late twentieth-century scholars in the field of feminist studies, Megan Taylor Shockley provides an in-depth look at feminism in the modern U.S. South. Shockley challenges the monolithic view of the region as a conservative bastion and argues that feminist advocates have …
Gin, Jesus, and Jim Crow
Prohibition and the Transformation of Racial and Religious Politics in the South
Inbunden, 2022
518 kr
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In Gin, Jesus, and Jim Crow, Brendan J. J. Payne reveals how prohibition helped realign the racial and religious order in the South by linking restrictions on alcohol with political preaching and the disfranchisement of Black voters. While both sides invoked Christianity, prohibitionists redefined …
Race and Restoration
Churches of Christ and the Black Freedom Struggle
Av Barclay Key
Inbunden, 2020
518 kr
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From the late nineteenth century to the dawn of the civil rights era, the Churches of Christ operated outside of conventional racial customs. Many of their congregations, even deep in the South, counted whites and blacks among their numbers. As the civil rights movement began to challenge pervasive …
Race and Education in New Orleans
Creating the Segregated City, 1764-1960
Av Walter Stern
Häftad, 2020
390 kr
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Surveying the two centuries that preceded Jim Crow's demise, Race and Education in New Orleans traces the course of the city's education system from the colonial period to the start of school desegregation in 1960. Walter C. Stern's timely historical analysis reveals that public schools in New …
Race, Crime, and Policing in the Jim Crow South
African Americans and Law Enforcement in Birmingham, Memphis, and New Orleans, 1920-1945
Av Brandon T. Jett, David Goldfield
Inbunden, 2021
534 kr
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Throughout the Jim Crow era, southern police departments played a vital role in the maintenance of white supremacy. Police targeted African Americans through an array of actions, including violent interactions, unjust arrests, and the enforcement of segregation laws and customs. Scholars have …
Race, Crime, and Policing in the Jim Crow South
African Americans and Law Enforcement in Birmingham, Memphis, and New Orleans, 1920-1945
Av Brandon T. Jett, David Goldfield
Häftad, 2023
402 kr
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Throughout the Jim Crow era, southern police departments played a vital role in the maintenance of white supremacy. Police targeted African Americans through an array of actions, including violent interactions, unjust arrests, and the enforcement of segregation laws and customs. Scholars have …
Going to Hell to Get the Devil
The 1972 Charlotte Three Case and the Freedom Struggle in a Sunbelt City
Av J. Christopher Schutz, David Goldfield
Inbunden, 2024
449 kr
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The 1968 burning of the Lazy B Stables in Charlotte, North Carolina, attracted little notice beyond coverage in local media. By the mid-1970s, however, the fire had become the center of a contentious and dubious arson case against a trio of Black civil rights activists, who became known as the …
