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 [and others].

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Other Authors: Cole, Stephanie, 1962-, Ring, Natalie J., Wallenstein, Peter
Language:English
Published: College Station : Published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press, [2012], ©2012.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures ; 43.
Subjects:
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 > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Southern States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Physical Description:xi, 216 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
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.