Race, Class, and Politics in Southern History: Essays in Honor of Robert F. Durden By Jeffrey J. Crow, Paul D. Escott And Charles L. Flynn Jr

Race, Class, and Politics in Southern History: Essays in Honor of Robert F. Durden By Jeffrey J. Crow, Paul D. Escott And Charles L. Flynn Jr

Hardcover

ISBN 0807115126

Publisher: Louisiana State University Press1989, 1st edition

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The essays gathered here focus on two dominant and often contradictory themes in southern history: race and class. Concentrating on the years between the Civil War and World War 2, the authors of these essays analyze the effects of the South's intransigent attitudes on race and class during three critical periods of the region's history. The first two essays examine racism and Republican reform during reconstruction. In his essay on reconstruction Paul D. Escott offers a new interpretation of both white republicanism and southern conservatives' use of terrorism in their suppression of a biracial political movement. By taking a systematic look at the families of carpetbaggers Ruth Currie-McDaniel reveals what impact northern prejudices and animosities had on the failure of republican political reconstruction.