Paternalism In A Southern City

Author : Edward J. Cashin,Glenn T. Eskew
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820340944

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Paternalism in a Southern City by Edward J. Cashin,Glenn T. Eskew Pdf

These essays look at southern social customs within a single city in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In particular, the volume focuses on paternalism between masters and slaves, husbands and wives, elites and the masses, and industrialists and workers. How Augusta's millworkers, homemakers, and others resisted, exploited, or endured the constraints of paternalism reveals the complex interplay between race, class, and gender. One essay looks at the subordinating effects of paternalism on women in the Old South--slave, free black, and white--and the coping strategies available to each group. Another focuses on the Knights of Labor union in Augusta. With their trappings of chivalry, the Knights are viewed as a response by Augusta's white male millworkers to the emasculating "maternalism" to which they were subjected by their own wives and daughters and those of mill owners and managers. Millworkers are also the topic of a study of mission work in their communities, a study that gauges the extent to which religious outreach by elites was a means of social control rather than an outpouring of genuine concern for worker welfare. Other essays discuss Augusta's "aristocracy of color," who had to endure the same effronteries of segregation as the city's poorest blacks; the role of interracial cooperation in the founding of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church as a denomination, and of Augusta's historic Trinity CME Church; and William Jefferson White, an African American minister, newspaper editor, and founder of Morehouse College. The varied and creative responses to paternalism discussed here open new ways to view relationships based on power and negotiated between men and women, blacks and whites, and the prosperous and the poor.

Author : Nancy Bercaw,Ted Ownby
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781469616728

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The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture by Nancy Bercaw,Ted Ownby Pdf

This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture reflects the dramatic increase in research on the topic of gender over the past thirty years, revealing that even the most familiar subjects take on new significance when viewed through the lens of gender. The wide range of entries explores how people have experienced, understood, and used concepts of womanhood and manhood in all sorts of obvious and subtle ways. The volume features 113 articles, 65 of which are entirely new for this edition. Thematic articles address subjects such as sexuality, respectability, and paternalism and investigate the role of gender in broader subjects, including the civil rights movement, country music, and sports. Topical entries highlight individuals such as Oprah Winfrey, the Grimke sisters, and Dale Earnhardt, as well as historical events such as the capture of Jefferson Davis in a woman's dress, the Supreme Court's decision in Loving v. Virginia, and the Memphis sanitation workers' strike, with its slogan, "I AM A MAN." Bringing together scholarship on gender and the body, sexuality, labor, race, and politics, this volume offers new ways to view big questions in southern history and culture.

Author : James Duane Bolin
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813193649

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Bossism and Reform in a Southern City by James Duane Bolin Pdf

William Frederick "Billy" Klair (1875-1937) was the undisputed czar of Lexington, Kentucky, for decades. As political boss in a mid-sized, southern city, he faced problems strikingly similar to those of large cities in the North. As he watched the city grow from a sleepy market town of 16,000 residents to a bustling, active urban center of over 50,000, Klair saw changes that altered not just Lexington but the nation and the world: urbanization, industrialization, and immigration. But Klair did not merely watch these changes; like other political bosses and social reformers, he actively participated in the transformation of his city. As a political boss and a practitioner of what George Washington Plunkitt of Tammany Hall referred to as "honest graft," Klair applied lessons of organization, innovation, manipulation, power, and control from the machine age to bring together diverse groups of Lexingtonians and Kentuckians as supporters of a powerful political machine. James Duane Bolin also examines the underside of the city, once known as the Athens of the West. He balances the postcard view of Bluegrass mansions and horse farms with the city's well-known vice district, housing problems, racial tensions, and corrupt politics. With the reality of life in Lexington as a backdrop, the career of Billy Klair provides as a valuable and engaging case study of the inner workings of a southern political machine.

Author : Lee J. Alston,Joseph P. Ferrie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521622103

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Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State by Lee J. Alston,Joseph P. Ferrie Pdf

This book shows how paternalism in Southern agriculture helped shape the growth of the welfare state.

Author : Paul Harvey
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469606422

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Freedom's Coming by Paul Harvey Pdf

In a sweeping analysis of religion in the post-Civil War and twentieth-century South, Freedom's Coming puts race and culture at the center, describing southern Protestant cultures as both priestly and prophetic: as southern formal theology sanctified dominant political and social hierarchies, evangelical belief and practice subtly undermined them. The seeds of subversion, Paul Harvey argues, were embedded in the passionate individualism, exuberant expressive forms, and profound faith of believers in the region. Harvey explains how black and white religious folk within and outside of mainstream religious groups formed a southern "evangelical counterculture" of Christian interracialism that challenged the theologically grounded racism pervasive among white southerners and ultimately helped to end Jim Crow in the South. Moving from the folk theology of segregation to the women who organized the Montgomery bus boycott, from the hymn-inspired freedom songs of the 1960s to the influence of black Pentecostal preachers on Elvis Presley, Harvey deploys cultural history in fresh and innovative ways and fills a decades-old need for a comprehensive history of Protestant religion and its relationship to the central question of race in the South for the postbellum and twentieth-century period.

Author : Frank Towers
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0813922976

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The Urban South and the Coming of the Civil War by Frank Towers Pdf

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Author : David R. Goldfield
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0820325619

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Southern Histories by David R. Goldfield Pdf

"Goldfield looks at an array of issues from the Thomas Jefferson-Sally Hemmings controversy to debates over the Confederate flag to the proliferation of African American history museums and monuments in the region. Finally, he recalls his work as a consultant on U.S. Supreme Court cases involving a majority black voting district in North Carolina, as a coauthor of an environmental and economic impact study of offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, and as a mitigating witness in the sentencing phases of six racially polarizing death penalty cases. His contributions, Goldfield hopes, made history more "real" to people in vocations outside of academia."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Ted Ownby
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781628469639

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Manners and Southern History by Ted Ownby Pdf

Contributions by Catherine Clinton, Joseph Crespino, Jane Dailey, Lisa Lindquist Dorr, Anya Jabour, John F. Kasson, Jennifer Ritterhouse, and Charles F. Robinson II The concept of southern manners may evoke images of debutantes being introduced to provincial society or it might conjure thoughts of the humiliating behavior white supremacists expected of African Americans under Jim Crow. The essays in Manners and Southern History analyze these topics and more. Scholars here investigate the myriad ways in which southerners from the Civil War through the civil rights movement understood manners. Contributors write about race, gender, power, and change. Essays analyze the ways southern white women worried about how to manage anger during the Civil War, the complexities of trying to enforce certain codes of behavior under segregation, and the controversy of college women's dating lives in the raucous 1920s. Writers study the background and meaning of Mardi Gras parades and debutante balls, the selective enforcement of anti-miscegenation laws, and arguments over the form that opposition to desegregation should take. Concluding essays by Jane Dailey and John F. Kasson summarize and critique the other articles and offer a broader picture of the role that manners played in the social history of the South.

Author : Karen A. Johnson,Abul Pitre,Kenneth L. Johnson
Publisher : R&L Education
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781610486484

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African American Women Educators by Karen A. Johnson,Abul Pitre,Kenneth L. Johnson Pdf

This book examines the lived experiences and work of African American women educators during the 1880s to the 1960s. Specifically, this text portrays an array of Black educators who used their social location as educators and activists to resist and fight the interlocking structures of power, oppression, and privilege that existed across the various educational institutions in the U.S. during this time. This book seeks to explore these educators' thoughts and teaching practices in an attempt to understand their unique vision of education for Black students and the implications of their work for current educational reform.

Author : Audrey Thomas McCluskey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442211407

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A Forgotten Sisterhood by Audrey Thomas McCluskey Pdf

Emerging from the darkness of the slave era and Reconstruction, black activist women Lucy Craft Laney, Mary McLeod Bethune, Charlotte Hawkins Brown, and Nannie Helen Burroughs founded schools aimed at liberating African-American youth from disadvantaged futures in the segregated and decidedly unequal South. From the late nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries, these individuals fought discrimination as members of a larger movement of black women who uplifted future generations through a focus on education, social service, and cultural transformation. Born free, but with the shadow of the slave past still implanted in their consciousness, Laney, Bethune, Brown, and Burroughs built off each other’s successes and learned from each other’s struggles as administrators, lecturers, and suffragists. Drawing from the women’s own letters and writings about educational methods and from remembrances of surviving students, Audrey Thomas McCluskey reveals the pivotal significance of this sisterhood’s legacy for later generations and for the institution of education itself.

Author : Barbara McCaskill,Caroline Gebhard
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780814731673

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Post-bellum, Pre-Harlem by Barbara McCaskill,Caroline Gebhard Pdf

The years between the collapse of Reconstruction and the end of World War I mark a pivotal moment in African American cultural production. Christened the “Post-Bellum-Pre-Harlem” era by the novelist Charles Chesnutt, these years look back to the antislavery movement and forward to the artistic flowering and racial self-consciousness of the Harlem Renaissance. Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem offers fresh perspectives on the literary and cultural achievements of African American men and women during this critically neglected, though vitally important, period of our nation's past. Using a wide range of disciplinary approaches, the sixteen scholars gathered here offer both a reappraisal and celebration of African American cultural production during these influential decades. Alongside discussions of political and artistic icons such as Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Henry Ossawa Tanner, and James Weldon Johnson are essays revaluing figures such as the writers Paul and Alice Dunbar-Nelson, the New England painter Edward Mitchell Bannister, and Georgia-based activists Lucy Craft Laney and Emmanuel King Love. Contributors explore an array of forms from fine art to anti-lynching drama, from sermons to ragtime and blues, and from dialect pieces and early black musical theater to serious fiction. Contributors include: Frances Smith Foster, Carla L. Peterson, Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Audrey Thomas McCluskey, Barbara Ryan, Robert M. Dowling, Barbara A. Baker, Paula Bernat Bennett, Philip J. Kowalski, Nikki L. Brown, Koritha A. Mitchell, Margaret Crumpton Winter, Rhonda Reymond, and Andrew J. Scheiber.

Author : Chad E. Seales
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199860289

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The Secular Spectacle by Chad E. Seales Pdf

Using ethnographic and archival sources, Chad E. Seales argues in The Secular Spectacle that white Protestants in Siler ritually engaged material cultures of racial segregation and southern industrialization that had been forged in the early twentieth century in order to reclaim public space following the arrival of Latino Catholics.

Author : Michael N. Barnett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107176904

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Paternalism Beyond Borders by Michael N. Barnett Pdf

This book asks how we understand the relationship between ethics and power in humanitarian action.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89102498151

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The Southern Historian by Anonim Pdf

Author : Steven Elliot Tripp
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1999-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814782378

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Yankee Town, Southern City by Steven Elliot Tripp Pdf

One of the most hotly debated issues in the historical study of race relations is the question of how the Civil War and Reconstruction affected social relations in the South. Did the War leave class and race hierarchies intact? Or did it mark the profound disruption of a long-standing social order? Yankee Town, Southern City examines how the members of the southern community of Lynchburg, Virginia experienced four distinct but overlapping events--Secession, Civil War, Black Emancipation, and Reconstruction. By looking at life in the grog shop, at the military encampment, on the street corner, and on the shop floor, Steven Elliott Tripp illustrates the way in which ordinary people influenced the contours of race and class relations in their town.