{"product_id":"southern-discomfort-9780252026829","title":"Southern Discomfort","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLinked to the Caribbean and southern Europe as well as to the Confederacy, the Cigar City of Tampa, Florida, never fit comfortably into the biracial mold of the New South. Nancy A. Hewitt explores the interactions among distinct groups of women--native-born white, African American, Cuban and Italian immigrant women--that shaped women''s activism in the vibrant, multiethnic city. \u003cp\u003e Hewitt emphasizes the process by which women forged and reformulated their activist identities from Reconstruction through the U.S. declaration of war against Spain in April 1898, the industrywide cigar strike of 1901, and the emergence of progressive reform and labor militancy. She also recasts our understanding of southern history by demonstrating how Tampa''s triracial networks alternately challenged and re-inscribed the South''s biracial social and political order. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJulia Cherry Spruill Prize, Southern Association for Women Historians, 2002.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A splendid piece of work: rich in detail, soundly reasoned, and provocative in its implications for social historians' debates about identity. Hewitt's lucid, engaging prose makes the book a particularly good one for use in undergraduate classrooms, but specialists will also find it a most valuable read.\"--\u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Hewitt's book revises previous notions about the biracialism of Jim Crow. . . . Outstanding scholarship.\"--\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Enriches our understanding of women and gender in urban history through [the] astute analys[is] of women as key public actors and cultural symbols in the emerging city of Tampa.\"--\u003ci\u003eUrban History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments   ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction   1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePart 1: The Making of a Multiracial City, 1880-1901\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Creating the Cigar City   21\u003cbr\u003e 2. An Activist Mosaic   38\u003cbr\u003e 3. Solidarity and Segregation   67\u003cbr\u003e 4. Race Conflicts and Class Currents   98\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePart 2: Kaleidoscopic Connections, 1902-29\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. African American Women Confront Jim Crow   142\u003cbr\u003e 6. Anglo Women in the Era of Institution Building   170\u003cbr\u003e 7. Latin Women from Exiles to Immigrants   200\u003cbr\u003e 8. New Women   222\u003cbr\u003e 9. Recasting Activist Identities   248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue   271\u003cbr\u003e Notes   277\u003cbr\u003e Index   335\u003cbr\u003e Illustrations follow page 136","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51742173495639,"sku":"9780252026829","price":87.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/southern-discomfort-9780252026829","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}