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Title:

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 ... [et al.].

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

University of Texas,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

xi, 216 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

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--History--History--19th century.
Southern States--History--History--20th century.

Other Authors:

Cole, Stephanie, 1962-
Ring, Natalie J.
Wallenstein, Peter.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Series:

Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures ; no. 43

ISBN:

1603446613 (e-book)
9781603446617 (e-book)
160344582X (cloth : alk. paper)
9781603445825 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)768417940

LCCN:

2011049777

Locations:

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