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Author:

Cable, John H. (History professor), author.

Title:

Southern enclosure : settler colonialism and the postwar transformation of Mississippi / John H. Cable.

Publisher:

University Press of Kansas,

Copyright Date:

2024

Description:

x, 210 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Subject:

Choctaw Indians--Land tenure--Mississippi.
Land tenure--Mississippi--History--20th century.
African American farmers--Mississippi--History--20th century.
Agriculture--Social aspects--Mississippi.
Settler colonialism--Mississippi--History--20th century.
Mississippi--History--History--20th century.
1900-1999

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-202) and index.

Contents:

Land, labor, and race in the prewar years -- Sea change : settler agriculture after World War II -- Frantic resistance : Mississippi and the decolonial zeitgeist -- Enclosure : settler agriculture in the 1950s -- Mississippi's 1960.

Summary:

"Southern Enclosure is among the first studies to explore that process through the interpretive lens of settler colonialism. Focusing on east central Mississippi, home of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, it situates enclosure in the long history of dispossession that began with Indian Removal. The project follows elite white landowners and Black and Choctaw farmers from World War II to 1960-the period when the old, labor-intensive farm structure collapsed. To acknowledge that this process occurred on taken land is to view the records of agricultural agents, segregationist politicians, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) as traces of ongoing colonization"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0700635831
9780700635832

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1388209298

LCCN:

2023004227

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)