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The folly of Jim Crow : rethinking the segregated South / edited by Stephanie Cole and Natalie J. Ring ; with an introduction by W. Fitzhugh Brundage ; contributors, Peter Wallenstein [and others].

Other author/creatorCole, Stephanie, 1962-
Other author/creatorRing, Natalie J.
Other author/creatorWallenstein, Peter.
Format Book and Print
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoArlington : University of Texas, ©2012.
Descriptionxi, 216 pages ; 25 cm.
Subject(s)
African Americans--Segregation --Southern States.
African American women--Southern States --Social conditions --19th century.
African American women--Southern States --Social conditions --20th century.
Southern States--Race relations --History --19th century.
Southern States--Race relations --History --20th century.
Series Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures ; no. 43
Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures ; 43. ^A204799
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2011049777
ISBN9781603445825 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN160344582X (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9781603446617 (e-book)
ISBN1603446613 (e-book)

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Joyner Ronnie Barnes African American Collection E185.92 .F65 2012 ✔ Available Place Hold
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