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.]

• Pubblicazione: College Station, : Published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press, 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (234 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.800975
• Soggetto topico: African Americans - Segregation - Southern States; African American women - Southern States - Social conditions - 19th century; African American women - Southern States - Social conditions - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: Southern States Race relations History 19th century; Southern States Race relations History 20th century
• Altri autori: ColeStephanie <1962-> RingNatalie J BrundageW. Fitzhugh WallensteinPeter
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The folly of Jim Crow
• ISBN: 1-280-77229-8; 9786613683069; 1-60344-661-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826452203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures ; ; 43.