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Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South Series

24 primary works • 24 total works
The South that could be reasonably termed the nation's number one economic problem in 1938 is no more. Today, the South with its runaway economic and demographic growth, political clout, and influential cultural exports is arguably the most dynamic region in the United States.

With an eye toward understanding the struggles that have shaped the newes…
A Common Thread: Labor, Politics, and Capital Mobility in the Textile Industry
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4.50 · 2 Ratings · published 2006 · 4 editions
With important ramifications for studies relating …

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    Everybody Was Black Down There: Race and Industrial Change in the Alabama Coalfields
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    4.20     · 5 Ratings · published 2007 · 5 editions
    In 1930 almost 13,000 African Americans worked in …

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    Race, Reason, and Massive Resistance: The Diary of David J. Mays, 1954-1959
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    4.50     · 4 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2008 · 2 editions
    These private writings by a prominent white southe…

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    The Unemployed People's Movement: Leftists, Liberals, and Labor in Georgia, 1929-1941
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    0.00     · published 2009 · 8 editions
    In Georgia during the Great Depression, jobless wo…

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    Liberalism, Black Power, and the Making of American Politics, 1965–1980
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    3.75     · 8 Ratings · published 2009 · 3 editions
    In this pioneering exploration of the interplay be…

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    Guten Tag, Y'all: Globalization and the South Carolina Piedmont, 1950-2000
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    5.00     · 2 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2009 · 4 editions
    Nicknamed "Euroville," Spartanburg, South Carolina…

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    Marching in Step: Masculinity, Citizenship, and The Citadel in Post-World War II America
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    3.80     · 5 Ratings · published 2009 · 5 editions
    Combining the nuanced perspective of an insider wi…

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    The Culture of Property: Race, Class, and Housing Landscapes in Atlanta, 1880-1950
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    3.67     · 3 Ratings · published 2009 · 2 editions
    This history of the idea of “neighborhood” in a ma…

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    Rabble Rousers: The American Far Right in the Civil Rights Era
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    4.50     · 6 Ratings · published 2010 · 7 editions
    The decade following the 1954 Brown v. Board of Ed…

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    Who Gets a Childhood?: Race and Juvenile Justice in Twentieth-Century Texas
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    4.38     · 8 Ratings · published 2010 · 7 editions
    Using Texas as a case study for understanding chan…

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    Alabama Getaway: The Political Imaginary and the Heart of Dixie
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    3.64     · 14 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2011 · 8 editions
    In Alabama Getaway Allen Tullos explores the recen…

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    The Problem South: Region, Empire, and the New Liberal State, 1880-1930
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    3.00     · 11 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2012 · 7 editions
    For most historians, the late nineteenth and early…

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    The Nashville Way: Racial Etiquette and the Struggle for Social Justice in a Southern City
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    4.22     · 9 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2012 · 6 editions
    Among Nashville’s many slogans, the one that best …

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    Cold War Dixie: Militarization and Modernization in the American South
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    4.00     · 22 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2013 · 6 editions
    Focusing on the impact of the Savannah River Plant…

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    Faith in Bikinis: Politics and Leisure in the Coastal South since the Civil War
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    0.00     · published 2014 · 3 editions
    While traditional industries like textile or lumbe…

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    New Negro Politics in the Jim Crow South
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    3.50     · 2 Ratings · 4 editions
    This study details how the development and maturat…

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    Womanpower Unlimited and the Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi
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    4.33     · 9 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2015 · 4 editions
    In Womanpower Unlimited and the Black Freedom Stru…

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    Jim Crow Terminals: The Desegregation of American Airports
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    3.90     · 10 Ratings · 6 Reviews · 4 editions
    Historical accounts of racial discrimination in tr…

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    Remaking the Rural South: Interracialism, Christian Socialism, and Cooperative Farming in Jim Crow Mississippi
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    4.50     · 2 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 4 editions
    This is the first book-length study of Delta Coope…

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    The South of the Mind: American Imaginings of White Southernness, 1960-1980
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    3.75     · 4 Ratings · 4 editions
    With the nation reeling from the cultural and poli…

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    The Politics of White Rights: Race, Justice, and Integrating Alabama's Schools
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    3.83     · 6 Ratings · 4 editions
    In The Politics of White Rights, Joseph Bagley rec…

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    The Struggle and the Urban South: Confronting Jim Crow in Baltimore Before the Movement
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    3.00     · 2 Ratings · 3 editions
    Through the example of Baltimore, Maryland, David …

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    Massive Resistance and Southern Womanhood: White Women, Class, and Segregation
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    3.83     · 6 Ratings · 4 editions
    Massive Resistance and Southern Womanhood offers a…

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    I Lay This Body Down: The Transatlantic Life of Rosey E. Pool
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    5.00     · 3 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 2 editions
    Rosey E. Pool (1905-71) did not live an ordinary l…

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