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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hurt, R. Douglas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Southern States--History--20th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Southern States--Social conditions--20th century.

African American farmers--Southern States--History--20th century.

African American farmers.

Agriculture--Social aspects--Southern States--History--20th century.

Agriculture.

Sharecropping--Southern States--History--20th century.

Sharecropping.

Southern States--History--1865-1951.

Southern States.

Southern States--Race relations.

Southern States--Rural conditions.

Physical Description:

vi, 227 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8262-6375-5

OCLC:

56422251