The folly of Jim Crow

The folly of Jim Crow rethinking the segregated South / [electronic resource] : edited by Stephanie Cole and Natalie J. Ring ; introduction by W. Fitzhugh Brundage ; contributors, Peter Wallenstein ... [et al.]. - 1st ed. - College Station : Published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press, 2012. - xi, 216 p. - Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures ; no. 43 . - Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures ; 43. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
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2011.
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African Americans--Segregation--Southern States.
African American women--Social conditions--Southern States--19th century.
African American women--Social conditions--Southern States--20th century.


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


Electronic books.

E185.92 / .F65 2012eb

305.800975