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Book SynopsisWhite supremacy shaped all aspects of post-Civil War southern life, yet its power was never complete or total. This book presents the southern men and women - some heroic and decent, others mean and sinister, most a mixture of both - who supported and challenged Jim Crow, showing that white supremacy always had to prove its power.
Trade Review"In its linking of culture and social relations with politics, Jumpin' Jim Crow is cutting edge history and belongs in every academic library."--Library Journal "Jumpin Jim Crow offers a valuable contribution to the study of race relations in the American South."--Junius P. Rodriguez, History "This is a very important book. It might easily have been subtitled A Treatise on the New Southern Political History. The essays in it are important ones, and they hold together very well."--Glen Feldman, The Virginia Magazine "In short, this collection is a revision of how historians think about the postbellum South... It is an important and provocative book."--Clarence E. Walker, The Journal of Southern History "A central contribution to these essays ... is to our understanding of how the conflation of notions of manhood, paternalism, and white supremacy blurred and bridged the distinction between the public and private spheres in Southern life and politics."--Robert P. Green Jr., The Historian
Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 3 Chapter 1: by Laura Edwards The Politics of Marriage and Households in North Carolina during Reconstruction 7 Chapter 2: by Elsa Barkely Brown Negotiating and Transforming the Public Sphere: African American Political Life in the Transition from Slavery to Freedom 28 Chapter 3: by Stephen Kantrowwitz One Man's Mob Is Another Man's Militia: Violence, Manhood, and Authority in Reconstruction South Carolina 67 Chapter 4: by Jane Daily The Limits of Liberalism in the New South: The Politics of Race, Sex, and Patronage in Virginia, 1879-1883 88 Chapter 5: by W. Fitzhugh Brundage White Women and the Politics of Historical Memory in the New South, 1880-1920 115 Chapter 6: by David F. Godshalk William J. Northen's Public and Personal Struggles against Lynching 140 Chapter 7: by Grace Elizabeth Hale "For Colored" and "For White": Segregating Consumption in the South 162 Chapter 8: by Nancy MacLean The Leo Frank Case Reconsidered: Vender and Sexual Politics in the Making of Reactionary Populism 183 Chapter 9: by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore False Friends and Avowed Enemies: Southern African Americans and Party Allegiances in the 1920s 219 Chapter 10: by Bryant Simon Race Reactions: African American Organizing, Liberalism, and White Working-Class Politics in Postwar South Carolina 239 Chapter 11: by Kari Frederickson "As a Man, I Am Interested in States' Rights": Gender, Race, and the Family in the Dixiecrat Party, 1948-195O 260 Chapter 12: by Timothy B. Tyson Dynamite and "The Silent South": A Story from the Second Reconstruction in South Carolina 275 Afterwards Portraying Power by Edward Ayers 301 Reflections by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall 304 The Shoah and Southern History by Nell Irvin Painter 308 Contributors 311 Index 315
