num_pages: 376
description: Linked to the Caribbean and southern Europe as well as to the Confederacy, the Cigar City of Tampa, Florida, never fit comfortably into the biracial mold of the New South. Nancy A. Hewitt explores the interactions among distinct groups of women--native-born white, African American, Cuban and Italian immigrant women--that shaped women's activism in the vibrant, multiethnic city. Hewitt emphasizes the process by which women forged and reformulated their activist identities from Reconstruction through the U.S. declaration of war against Spain in April 1898, the industrywide cigar strike of 1901, and the emergence of progressive reform and labor militancy. She also recasts our understanding of southern history by demonstrating how Tampa's triracial networks alternately challenged and re-inscribed the South's biracial social and political order.
language: English
title: Southern Discomfort: Women's Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s-1920s
titlecomplete: Southern Discomfort: Women's Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s-1920s (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History)
genres: History
ratings_count: 23
places: Tampa, Florida
series: Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Julia Cherry Spruill Prize
publisher: University of Illinois Press