| Yankee Town, Southern City: Race and Class Relations in Civil War Lynchburg Contributor(s): Tripp, Steven Elliot (Author) |
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ISBN: 0814782051 ISBN-13: 9780814782057 Publisher: New York University Press OUR PRICE: $88.11 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 1997 Annotation: 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 longstanding social order? Yankee Town, Southern City examines how the members of one Southern community, Lynchburg, Virginia, experienced four distinct but overlapping events - Secession, Civil War, black emancipation, and Reconstruction. By examining life in the grog shop, at the military encampment, on the street corner, and on the shop floor, Steven Elliott Tripp illustrates the ways in which ordinary people influenced the contours of race and class relations in their town. Tripp argues that war and postwar experiences compelled blacks and lower-class whites to defy the elites' prescription for race relations. By acting on their own, lower-class whites expressed their frustrations with elite rule and contributed to the instability of postwar society. African Americans, Tripp argues, were equally assertive. Drawing on a collective culture that developed in the town's tobacco factories well before the war, the black community demonstrated a resolve that often frustrated whites' attempts to control it. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) |
| Dewey: 305.800 |
| LCCN: 96035602 |
| Series: American Social Experience |
| Physical Information: 1.11" H x 6.4" W x 9.24" (1.42 lbs) 362 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Cultural Region - South - Geographic Orientation - Virginia - Topical - Civil War - Cultural Region - South Atlantic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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? |
Contributor Bio(s): Tripp, Steven Elliot: - Steven Elliott Tripp is Associate Professor of History at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. |