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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.].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures ; 43.
- Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures ; no. 43
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Segregation--Southern States.
- African Americans.
- African American women--Southern States--Social conditions--19th century.
- African American women.
- African American women--Southern States--Social conditions--20th century.
- Southern States--Race relations--History--19th century.
- Southern States.
- Southern States--Race relations--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (234 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- College Station : Published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613683069
- 9781280772290
- 1280772298
- 9781603446617
- 1603446613
- OCLC:
- 794002160
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