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The Southern fault line : how race, class, and region shaped one family's history / Bryan D. Jones.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jones, Bryan D., author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jones, Bryan D--Family.
- Jones, Bryan D.
- Dean family.
- Carr family.
- Davidson family.
- Jones family.
- White people--Alabama--Biography.
- White people.
- African Americans--Segregation--Southern States.
- African Americans.
- Civil rights--Southern States.
- Civil rights.
- Blount County (Ala.)--Race relations.
- Blount County (Ala.).
- Sumter County (Ala.)--Race relations.
- Sumter County (Ala.).
- Southern States--Social conditions.
- Southern States.
- Southern States--Politics and government--1865-1950.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (473 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- 'The Southern Fault Line' explores the under-appreciated division in the South between the oligarchic rule of plantation owners and industrialists on the one hand, and the more democratic mindset of the mountain-dwelling small farmers on the other. These two mindsets were in continual tension from the 1800s to the 1960s, when the adherents of the more democratic side of the struggle capitulated to the oligarchical side in response to the Civil Rights movement. Bryan D. Jones draws from his own family's centuries-old history in the region to explore the rise and fall of the 'two minds' of the South. Through a comparison of the experiences of a slaveholding line in his family with three non-slaveholding lines, Jones provides a rich history of the politics of both class and race in the region from the Founding era to the present.
- Contents:
- Southern Democracy or Southern Oligarchy?
- Two Souths or One? Blount and Sumter
- Part 1: Slaves, Owners, and the Black Belt
- The Lasting Legacy of Slave Ownership
- Plantation Politics
- Myth and Reality in the Black Belt
- Part 2: Upland Uprising On Sand Mountain
- Removals, Religion, and the White Republic
- Sand Mountain People
- Yeoman Farming in the Mountains
- North Alabama in War and Reconstruction
- "The Blowhard of Blount"
- "Our Demosthenes"
- Interlude: A Populist Narrative
- Part 3: Traverses of the Common White Man
- The Two Faces of Brother Charley Jones
- Charles Cade Jones Goes to War
- The Life of a South Alabama Tenant Farmer
- "I Was Greatly Embarrassed Because of My Ignorance"
- Part 4: The Long and Wretched Jim Crow
- A Lynching Thwarted and a Brutal Murder
- The Arc of Injustice
- Part 5: The Tragic Failure of Southern Moderates
- The Greatest Generation
- Three Southern Editors
- The Center Does Not Hold: The Evolution of an Editor
- Part 6: The Collapse of Jim Crow
- A Bad Hotdog and a Big Orange
- The Pallbearer Who Could Not Go Into the Church
- Roll Tide at High Tide
- Looking Back to See Forward.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on December 9, 2024).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-777045-2
- 0-19-777043-6
- 0-19-777044-4
- OCLC:
- 1477764069
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