The southern albatross : race and ethnicity in the American South / edited by Philip D. Dillard and Randal L. Hall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dillard, Philip D.

Hall, Randal L., 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historiography.

Ethnic relations.

Race relations.

Southern States--Race relations--Congresses.

Southern States.

Southern States--Ethnic relations--Congresses.

Southern States--Historiography--Congresses.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

282 pages : maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, [1999]

Summary:

This collection of essays by eight historians--along with an epilogue by noted scholar Donald G. Mathews--pushes the historical investigation of race and ethnicity in new directions. Addressing subjects from the 1830s to the 1990s, these essays underscore the struggle to define and redefine ethnic boundaries and etiquettes to match changing circumstances. Two essays offer insights about evolving relationships between southern whites and Native Americans. The Reconstruction era is the focus of two other essays. One examines Louisiana's three-tiered racial structure, while another delves into the differing fortunes of urban and rural blacks in Wake County, North Carolina. Other essays center on domestic violence, the Leo Frank lynching in early twentieth century Georgia, the Atlanta child murders, and the "transformation" of white supremacist Asa Carter.

Contents:

Ethnic Conflict on the Southern Borderlands 7

1. "This Thankless ... Unholy War": Army Officers and Civil-Military Relations in the Second Seminole War / Samuel Watson 9

2. Establishing a Separate Identity: Texas's Offensive Struggle with the Indian Nations, 1861-1862 / Clayton E. Jewett 51

Development of African-American Identity in the Reconstruction South 83

3. "I Have Never Been Free and I Am Goin' to Try It": The Development of Black Families in Wake County, North Carolina, 1865-1870 / David H. McGee 85

4. "A Bitterness of Feelings": Black Intra-Race Relations in Civil War and Early Reconstruction Louisiana / James D. Wilson Jr. 113

Ethnicity, Gender, and Violence in the South 137

5. The Social Acceptability of Nineteenth-Century Domestic Violence / Angela Boswell 139

6. "A Thing So Illogical" in Georgia: Reconsidering Race, Myth, and the Lynching of Leo Frank / Stephen A. Brown 163

The Enduring Significance of Race and Ethnicity in the Modern South 195

7. The City It Always Wanted to Be: The Child Murders and the Coming of Age of Atlanta / Nancy Lopez 197

8. Asa/Forrest Carter and Regional/Political Identity / Jeff Roche 235.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0865546665

OCLC:

42295876