{"product_id":"race-unequals-9781498599061","title":"Race Unequals","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRace Unequals: Overseer Contracts, White Masculinities, and the Formation of Managerial Identity in the Plantation Economy is a re-imagining of the plantation not as Black and White, but in shades of White male identity. Through an examination of employment contracts between plantation owners and their overseers, and the web of public and private law that surrounded them, this book challenges notions of a monolithic White male identity in the antebellum South. It considers how race provided White men access to the land and enslaved labor that were foundational to the plantation economy, but how the wealthiest of those men used contracts, public law, and plantation management schemes to limit the access points by which overseers, the first managerial class in the United States, could achieve upward mobility as both White people and as men. In navigating the legal and social parameters of their employment contracts, overseers negotiated a white masculinity that formed their managerial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The World The Planters Made\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: The Overseer, His Contracts, and His Contractual Relationships\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Profitable Planters, Industrious Overseers, Maintaining the Status Quo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: “Pushing” Torture, Managing Violence, and Planter Regulation of Overseer Control\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: White Masculinities, Private Law, and the Battle for Social Control\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Immoral Men, Immoral Ends, Deference as Social Death\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEpilogue: The “Lost Cause” and the Legacy of Plantation Management\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040880165207,"sku":"9781498599061","price":69.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498599061.jpg?v=1750948156","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/race-unequals-9781498599061","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}