African American life in the rural South, 1900-1950 / / edited by R. Douglas Hurt

• Pubblicazione: Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2003
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: vi, 227 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 975/.0049607301734
• Soggetto topico: African Americans - Southern States - History - 20th century; African Americans - Southern States - Social conditions - 20th century; African American farmers - Southern States - History - 20th century; Agriculture - Social aspects - Southern States - History - 20th century; Sharecropping - Southern States - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: Southern States History 1865-1951; Southern States Race relations; Southern States Rural conditions
• Altri autori: HurtR. Douglas
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: African American life in the rural South, 1900-1950
• ISBN: 0-8262-6375-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910971100803321
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