03860nam 2200661 a 450 991097110080332120251117115720.00-8262-6375-5(CKB)1000000000000449(SSID)ssj0000099753(PQKBManifestationID)11127545(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000099753(PQKBWorkID)10019948(PQKB)10574443(MiAaPQ)EBC3570748(Au-PeEL)EBL3570748(CaPaEBR)ebr10048209(OCoLC)56422251(BIP)11494251(BIP)8061621(EXLCZ)99100000000000044920030203d2003 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrAfrican American life in the rural South, 1900-1950 /edited by R. Douglas Hurt1st ed.Columbia University of Missouri Pressc2003vi, 227 p. illBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8262-1471-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Lookin' for Better All the Time -- A Crude and Raw Past -- Of the Least and the Most -- Shifting Boundaries -- African American Rural Culture, 1900-1950 -- Benign Public Policies, Malignant Consequences, and the Demise of African American Agriculture -- I Have Been through Fire -- Exit, Voice, and Loyalty -- Suggested Readings -- Contributors -- Index. During the first half of the twentieth century, degradation, poverty, and hopelessness were commonplace for African Americans who lived in the South's countryside, either on farms or in rural communities. Many southern blacks sought relief from these conditions by migrating to urban centers. Many others, however, continued to live in rural areas. Scholars of African American rural history in the South have been concerned primarily with the experience of blacks as sharecroppers, tenant farmers, textile workers, and miners. Less attention has been given to other aspects of the rural African American experience during the early twentieth century.   African American Life in the Rural South, 1900-1950 provides important new information about African American culture, social life, and religion, as well as economics, federal policy, migration, and civil rights. The essays particularly emphasize the efforts of African Americans to negotiate the white world in the southern countryside.   Filling a void in southern studies, this outstanding collection provides a substantive overview of the subject. Scholars, students, and teachers of African American, southern, agricultural, and rural history will find this work invaluable. African AmericansSouthern StatesHistory20th centuryAfrican AmericansSouthern StatesSocial conditions20th centuryAfrican American farmersSouthern StatesHistory20th centuryAgricultureSocial aspectsSouthern StatesHistory20th centurySharecroppingSouthern StatesHistory20th centurySouthern StatesHistory1865-1951Southern StatesRace relationsSouthern StatesRural conditionsAfrican AmericansHistoryAfrican AmericansSocial conditionsAfrican American farmersHistoryAgricultureSocial aspectsHistorySharecroppingHistory975/.0049607301734Hurt R. Douglas1126891MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910971100803321African American life in the rural South, 1900-19504479477UNINA