Deep Souths

Delta, Piedmont, and Sea Island Society in the Age of Segregation
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8018-7310-2
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 496 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 644 g

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in HistoryCo-winner of the James A. Rawley Prize from the Organization of American HistoriansWinner of the Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Prize from the Agricultural History Society

Deep Souths tells the stories of three southern regions from Reconstruction to World War II: the Mississippi-Yazoo Delta, the eastern Piedmont of Georgia, and the Georgia Sea Islands and Atlantic coast. Though these regions initially shared the histories and populations we associate with the idea of a "Deep South"—all had economies based on slave plantation labor in 1860—their histories diverged sharply during the three generations after Reconstruction. With research gathered from oral histories, census reports, and a wide variety of other sources, Harris traces these regional changes in cumulative stories of individuals across the social spectrum. Deep Souths presents a comparative and ground-level view of history that challenges the idea that the lower South was either uniform or static in the era of segregation. By the end of the New Deal era, changes in these regions had prepared the way for the civil rights movement and the end of segregation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harris, J William

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: 1876–1896
Chapter 1. Land and Labor in New South Countrysides
Chapter 2. "A White Man's Country": Creating the Age of Segregation
Chapter 3. The Populist Challenge
Part II: 1897–1918
Chapter 4. Capital at Work, Capitalists at Play
Chapter 5. Culture, Race, and Class in the Segregation Era
Chapter 6. War's Challenge to Jim Crow Citizenship
Part III: 1919–1939
Chapter 7. Twilight in Cotton's Kingdom
Chapter 8. "Discord, Dissension, and Hatred": Cultural Change and Cultural Conflict After World War I
Chapter 9. "Uncle Sam is My Shepherd": The New Deal's Challenge to Deep South Political Economy
Conclusion
Deep South Histories
Coda
Endings
Appendix: Charts and Tables
Abbreviations
Notes
Essay on Sources
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Harris, J William
J. William Harris is a professor and chair of the History Department at the University of New Hampshire. His previous books include Society and Culture in the Slave South (editor) and Plain Folk and Gentry in a Slave Society: White Liberty and Black Slavery in Augusta's Hinterlands.