Race and class in the American South since 1890 / edited by Melvyn Stokes and Rick Halpern.

Publication:

Oxford [England] ; Providence, RI : Berg, 1994.

Format/Description:

Book
xvii, 220 p. ; 23 cm.

Subjects:

Southern States -- Race relations.
Southern States -- Social conditions.
Social classes -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.

Contents:

Through the rugged gates of the penitentiary / Alex Lichtenstein
Organized labor, black workers, and the twentieth century South / Rick Halpern
The legal basis of agrarian capitalism / Pete Daniel
The legal system and sharecropping / Martin Crawford
The disappearance of sharecropping / William Beinart
We were no class at all / Valeria Gennaro Lerda
Black social science and black politics in the understanding of the South / David Turley
The role of intellectual history in the histories of the Civil Rights Movement / Richard King
Racial politics, culture, and the Cole incident of 1956 / Brian Ward.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contributor:

Stokes, Melvyn.
Halpern, Rick.

ISBN:

1859730310 :
1859730361 (pbk.) :

OCLC:

30545051

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