Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South Series – serie
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7 produkter
Faith in Bikinis
Politics and Leisure in the Coastal South since the Civil War
E-bok, 2014
582 kr
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While traditional industries like textile or lumber mills have received a majority of the scholarly attention devoted to southern economic development, Faith in Bikinis presents an untold story of the New South, one that explores how tourism played a central role in revitalizing the southern …
New Negro Politics in the Jim Crow South
E-bok, 2016
959 kr
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This study details how the development and maturation of New Negro politics and thought were shaped not only by New York–based intellectuals and revolutionary transformations in Europe, but also by people, ideas, and organizations rooted in the South. Claudrena N. Harold probes into critical events …
Jim Crow Terminals
The Desegregation of American Airports
Av Anke Ortlepp
E-bok, 2017
456 kr
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Historical accounts of racial discrimination in transportation have focused until now on trains, buses, and streetcars and their respective depots, terminals, stops, and other public accommodations. It is essential to add airplanes and airports to this narrative, says Anke Ortlepp. Air travel …
Remaking the Rural South
Interracialism, Christian Socialism, and Cooperative Farming in Jim Crow Mississippi
E-bok, 2018
969 kr
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This is the first book-length study of Delta Cooperative Farm (1936–42) and its descendant, Providence Farm (1938–56). The two intentional communities drew on internationalist practices of cooperative communalism and pragmatically challenged Jim Crow segregation and plantation labor. In the winter …
South of the Mind
American Imaginings of White Southernness, 1960–1980
E-bok, 2018
1730 kr
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With the nation reeling from the cultural and political upheavals of the 1960s era, imaginings of the white South as a place of stability represented a bulwark against unsettling problems, from suburban blandness and empty consumerism to race riots and governmental deceit. A variety of individuals …
Politics of White Rights
Race, Justice, and Integrating Alabama's Schools
E-bok, 2018
1730 kr
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In The Politics of White Rights , Joseph Bagley recounts the history of school desegregation litigation in Alabama, focusing on the malleability and durability of white resistance. He argues that the litigious battles of 1954–73 taught Alabama’s segregationists how to fashion a more subtle defense …
Struggle and the Urban South
Confronting Jim Crow in Baltimore before the Movement
Av David Terry
E-bok, 2019
519 kr
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Through the example of Baltimore, Maryland, David Taft Terry explores the historical importance of African American resistance to Jim Crow laws in the South’s largest cities. Terry also adds to our understanding of the underexplored historical period of the civil rights movement, prior to the …
