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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Jim Crow South"”.
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"Most Great Reconstruction": The Baha'i Faith in Jim Crow South Carolina, 1898-1965
… Faith was the largest non-Christian religion in South Carolina, and it was well known for its longstanding commitment to promoting racial harmony, interfaith dialogue, and the moral education of children and youth. Its message was simple and powerful: in the Orient in the middle of the nineteenth …
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Whatever Force Necessary: The Politics of Police Brutality In the Post-Jim Crow South, 1968-1971
… transition from segregation to the Sunbelt South, and how the need to regulate young black males drove the politics of the post-Jim Crow urban South. The controversy surrounding law enforcement in Memphis during this period illustrates how police brutality helped mobilize black political …
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Two Trains Running: Capture and Escape in the Racialized Train Cars of the Jim Crow South, 1893-1930
… by these black men under the constraints of the Jim Crow South, we might come to a better understanding of the role of the railroad in American life, the role of segregation law in southern life, and the role of train experience in the expression of protest escaping from an African-American …
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Not Quite American, Not Quite European: Performing "Other" Claims to Exceptionality In Francoist Spain and the Jim Crow South
<p>For centuries, Spain and the South have existed as the exceptional "other" within U.S. and European ideas of nationalism when, particularly during Francoism and Jim Crow, they violently asserted a haunting brand of national "selfhood." My project explores the nature of this paradox not to simply …
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Lessons in Black and White: The Racial and Gender Socialization of White Children in the Jim Crow *South, 1887--1939
My final two chapters explore ritualistic racial violence as the extreme of racial and gender socialization. The attendance and participation in the mass mob lynchings of African Americans took white children outside of the daily experiences of racism. For white male youths, the community …
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Lucy Negro, Redux
… over time, from Elizabethan England to the Jim Crow South to the present day. Research for the collection began with the discovery in early 2012 of a connection between the historical Elizabethan figure Black Luce--a notorious brothel owner--and William Shakespeare, by Professor Duncan …
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Bridging the Gap between the Reality and the Myth of the American South: Three Authors' Efforts to Recover the Religious South
… the influence of literature on the religious South's progression beyond the civil religion of the Lost Cause. In this examination, I trace the development of the Southern mind from its inception into the Jim Crow South. In doing so, I contend that portions of the religious South became so …
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Land use and development over the long run
… how disruptions to agriculture in the US South, in the form of the boll weevil pest, changed the political economy of the Jim Crow South. The final essay considers the long run in the future, using agronomic microdata to assess the impact of climate change on agricultural productivity. The …
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Grant's Third Charge : a Tale of Scapegoating, Atonement, and Affirmation During the Era of Reconstruction (1863-1877)
… civil rights for African Americans in the Jim Crow South, a more moral and humane American Indian policy, and affirmative action for American Jews in a post-Civil War America. All told, this dissertation by design will help us better understand the maligned enigma that is Ulysses S. Grant …
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Behind the Banner of Patriotism: The New Orleans Chapter of the American Red Cross and Auxiliary Branches 6 and 11 (1914-1917)
… by nurses Louise Ross and Sarah Brown. Although Jim Crow dictated the division between the Chapter and its Branches within the mostly female organization, racial barriers did not prohibit them from uniting for the cause of national relief. The American Red Cross differed from other forms of …
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Bluesman, Guitar, And Migration
… people in isolated areas, particularly the Jim Crow south. These are certainly truths of the blues. Also true is that the blues was a product of modernization in every way and a representation of the African American bluesman's aspiring life. The bluesman's mobile lifestyle was one way of …
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From Cuba to Ybor City: Race, Revolution, Nationalism and Afro-Cuban Identity
… divisiveness in the Ybor City. Although the Jim Crow Laws deeply penetrated all levels of society in the U.S. South, black and white Cubans coexisted within the tiny bubble outside of Tampa during the last few decades of the nineteenth century. Historically, scholars have rarely focused on …
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Reaping the "Colored Harvest": The Catholic Mission in the American South
… of the Roman Catholic mission in the American South. On one hand, the Church committed itself to providing access to quality education in underserved southern black communities. The establishment of southern Catholic schools for African American children supported the nation's traditional …
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"Six Days Thou Shalt Labor": African-Americans in the Southern Textile industry, 1895-1929
… entered the Beaufort Knitting Mill in Beaufort, South Carolina. They were the vanguard of the hundreds of African Americans to labor in the Southern textile industry. Although textile work was almost exclusively the domain of white laborers, the history of African Americans textile workers …
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Black Women in Hattiesburg During World War II: War Work and Community Activism on the Home Front
… serve their race, community, and nation in the Jim Crow South. The racially segregated United States Army led to the formation of Hattiesburg’s Sixth Street United Service Organization (USO) in 1942, creating a need for Black women’s involvement and support. Eurkea School teachers, many of whom …
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Here comes the bookmobile: Public culture and the shape of belonging
… places—in Progressive-Era Kansas, in the Jim Crow South, in New Deal New Mexico and Cold War West Germany, in suburban supermarkets, and in Silicon Valley—while offering an expansive view of the relationship between community, space, and culture in America.
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A Web of Connections: How Early Twentieth-Century American Women Writers and Photographers Situated a New Way of Seeing
… and the Native American cultures of the American Southwest and may have inspired each other with their depictions and descriptions of that region, which even prompted Gilpin to suggest a collaboration with Cather to illustrate one of her novels, though the proposed project never materialized. …