Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi : Race, Class, and Nation Building in the Jim Crow South, 1830-1977 [1 ed.] 9780803273894, 9780803240445

When the Choctaws were removed from their Mississippi homeland to Indian Territory in 1830, several thousand remained be

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Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi : Race, Class, and Nation Building in the Jim Crow South, 1830-1977 [1 ed.]
9780803273894, 9780803240445

The South's system of Jim Crow racial oppression is usually understood in terms of legal segregation that mandated

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This is the first book-length study of Delta Cooperative Farm (1936–42) and its descendant, Providence Farm (1938–56). T

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Disturbing Development in the Jim Crow South documents how Black employees of the cooperative extension service of the U

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White supremacists determined what African Americans could do and where they could go in the Jim Crow South, but they we

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Elizabeth Herbin-Triant investigates early-twentieth-century campaigns for residential segregation laws in North Carolin

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In the early part of the twentieth century, Methodists were seen by many Americans as the most powerful Christian group

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Policing, incarceration, capital punishment: these forms of crime control were crucial elements of Jim Crow regimes. Whi

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The distribution of incomes in South Africa in 2004, ten years after the transition to democracy, was probably more uneq

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