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Race in the American South: From Slavery to Civil Rights
The issue of race has indelibly shaped the history of the United States. Nowhere has the drama of race relations been more powerfully staged than in the American South. This book charts the turbulent course of southern race relations from the colonial origins of the plantation system to the maturation of slavery in the nineteenth century, through the rise of a new racial order during the Civil War and Reconstruction, to the civil rights revolution of the twentieth century.While the history of race in the southern states has been shaped by a basic struggle between black and white, the authors show how other forces such as class and gender have complicated the colour line. They distinguish clearly between ideas about race, mostly written and disseminated by intellectuals and politicians, and their reception by ordinary southerners, both black and white. As a result, readers are presented with a broad, over-arching view of race in the American South throughout its chequered history.Key Features: *racial issues are the key area of interest for those who study the American South*race is the driving engine of Southern history*unique in its focus on race*broad coverage - origins of the plantation system to the situation in the South today
Book Details
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publish Date: Jul 12nd, 2007
- Pages: 392
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00lb
- EAN: 9780748613755
- Categories: • Cultural & Regional• Discrimination
About the Author
Brown, David: - David Brown is a Lecturer in the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures at the University of Manchester and author of Southern Outcast: Hinton Rowan Helper and The Impending Crisis of the South (2006).
Webb, Clive: - Clive Webb is a Reader in North American History at the University of Sussex.
Praise for this book
From the outset, this remarkable assessment of race in the Southern states exhibits scholastic finesse as well as extensive historical and critical research.""an incredibly informative, if not essential overview for students of American history, or indeed anyone who wishes to better grasp the complex development of race and racism in America.--G.B Murgatroyd, Lancaster University "American Studies Today, Issue 19"
A comprehensive account of the way that race has shaped the history of the United States.-- "Ethnicity and Race in a Changing World"
A first-rate work by two British specialists in American studies... Race in the American South can be highly recommended as a well-written, accurate and concise review of a tragic American history.--Tom Pettigrew, University of California "Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies"
Anyone who has used a textbook designed for an undergraduate survey course in history knows that broad chronological syntheses often tend towards generalizations and certitude. Remarkably, this is not the case here. Instead Brown and Webb illuminate various historical debates, largely leaving it up to their readers to evaluate the merits of various arguments... deserves a place of prominence on the bookshelf of any serious student of the American South.--Jennifer Jensen Wallach, Georgia College & State University "Journal of Social History"
In this splendid synthesis of southern history using race as the orgnaizing principle, David Brown and Clive Webb argue that race has been determinative in southern history, even as it interacted with class, gender, ethnicity and religion. Combining five maps, a chronology and a bibliographical essay, this highly accessible book is a fine overview of the literature and will prove useful in courses on race relations, African Americans and the South.--Anthony S. Parent Jr, Wake Forest Uniervsity "Journal of Southern History"
David Brown and Clive Webb have accomplished the nearly impossible by writing a well researched and highly readable synthesis of the broad history of race in the American South. Anyone who wants to understand the links as well as the discontinuities of race in the region should begin by reading this book and consulting the superb bibliographical essay of sources the authors have assembled.--Dan T. Carter, University of South Carolina
Clive Webb and David Brown have written an admirably extensive and useful survey of the racial experience of the American South since colonial times. Judicious, up-to-date, and alert to the wider context, it will win many friends for its welcome synthesis of a daunting historiography--Richard Carwardine, Rhodes Professor of American History, Oxford University
Race in the American South takes us on a sweeping synthetic analysis of an issue central to an understanding of American history. Little that is relevant seems to have escaped the attention of the authors.--Richard J. M. Blackett, Andrew Jackson Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
A stunning achievement. Clive Webb and David Brown have written easily the best overview that we have of race in the American South from the origins of slavery to the present day. Their book is informed by all the latest scholarship and characterized by consistently authoritative conclusions. Indispensable for any course on southern history.--Tony Badger, Paul Mellon Professor of American History, University of Cambridge