Remaking the Rural South: Interracialism, Christian Socialism, and Cooperative Farming in Jim Crow Mississippi 9780820351780, 0820351784

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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Remaking the Rural South: Interracialism, Christian Socialism, and Cooperative Farming in Jim Crow Mississippi
9780820351780, 0820351784

Many people characterize urban renewal projects and the power of eminent domain as two of the most widely despised and o

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

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

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A critical examination of racial discrimination in television broadcasting during the civil rights era.

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

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Did American racism originate in the liberal North? An inquiry into the system of institutionalized racism created by No

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