| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 216 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures ; no. 43
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Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures ; 43.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Segregation -- Southern States.
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African Americans -- Segregation. |
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Southern States. |
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African American women -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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African American women. |
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Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
African American women -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
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Race relations. |
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History. |
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Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
| Indexed Term |
Multi-User. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Cole, Stephanie, 1962-
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Ring, Natalie J.
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Wallenstein, Peter.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Folly of Jim Crow. 1st ed. College Station : Published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A & M University Press, 2012 9781603445825 (DLC) 2011049777 (OCoLC)768417940 |
| ISBN |
9781603446617 (electronic book) |
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1603446613 (electronic book) |
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9781603445825 (cloth) |
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160344582X (cloth) |
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