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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826452203321

Titolo

The folly of Jim Crow : rethinking the segregated South / / edited by Stephanie Cole and Natalie J. Ring ; introduction by W. Fitzhugh Brundage ; contributors, Peter Wallenstein ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

College Station, : Published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press, 2012

ISBN

1-280-77229-8

9786613683069

1-60344-661-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 p.)

Collana

Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures ; ; no. 43

Altri autori (Persone)

ColeStephanie <1962->

RingNatalie J

BrundageW. Fitzhugh

WallensteinPeter

Disciplina

305.800975

Soggetti

African Americans - Segregation - Southern States

African American women - Southern States - Social conditions - 19th century

African American women - Southern States - Social conditions - 20th century

Southern States Race relations History 19th century

Southern States Race relations History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Identity, marriage, and schools: life along the color line/s in the era of Plessy v. Ferguson / Peter Wallenstein -- Southern Indians and Jim Crow / Theda Perdue -- The "new race question": the problem of poor whites and the color line / Natalie J. Ring -- "Nature is the author of such restrictions": science, ethnological medicine, and Jim Crow / Melissa Stein -- From the "ladies' car" to the "colored car": black female travelers in the segregated South / Mia Bay -- Is marriage a civil right? the politics of intimacy in the Jim Crow era / Jane Dailey.

Sommario/riassunto

Although the origins, application, and socio-historical implications of the Jim Crow system have been studied and debated for at least the last



three-quarters of a century, nuanced understanding of this complex cultural construct is still evolving, according to Stephanie Cole and Natalie J. Ring, coeditors of The Folly of Jim Crow: Rethinking the Segregated South. Indeed, they suggest, scholars may profit from a careful examination of previous assumptions and conclusions along the lines suggested by the studies in this important new collection.  Based on the March 20