| African American Life in the Rural South, 1900-1950: Volume 1 Contributor(s): Hurt, R. Douglas (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0826219608 ISBN-13: 9780826219602 Publisher: University of Missouri Press OUR PRICE: $31.68 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 20th Century - History | Social History - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies |
| Dewey: 975.004 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.80 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Chronological Period - 1950's - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Topical - Black History - Cultural Region - South - Demographic Orientation - Rural |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: During the first half of the twentieth century, degradation, poverty, and hopelessness were commonplace for African Americans who lived in the South's countryside, either on farms or in rural communities. Many southern blacks sought relief from these conditions by migrating to urban centers. Many others, however, continued to live in rural areas. Scholars of African American rural history in the South have been concerned primarily with the experience of blacks as sharecroppers, tenant farmers, textile workers, and miners. Less attention has been given to other aspects of the rural African American experience during the early twentieth century. African American Life in the Rural South, 1900-1950 provides important new information about African American culture, social life, and religion, as well as economics, federal policy, migration, and civil rights. The essays particularly emphasize the efforts of African Americans to negotiate the white world in the southern countryside. Filling a void in southern studies, this outstanding collection provides a substantive overview of the subject. Scholars, students, and teachers of African American, southern, agricultural, and rural history will find this work invaluable. |