The folly of Jim Crow
Subtitle: rethinking the segregated South
By: edited by Stephanie Cole and Natalie J. Ring ; introduction by W. Fitzhugh Brundage ; contributors, Peter Wallenstein ... [et al.].
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures -- no. 43; Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures -- 43.
Publisher: Published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: College Station
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781603445825; 9781603446617
Subjects: Race relations; Segregation; African American women; Social conditions; African Americans; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Identity, marriage, and schools: life along the color line/s in the era of Plessy v. Ferguson / Peter Wallenstein; title: Southern Indians and Jim Crow / Theda Perdue; title: The "new race question": the problem of poor whites and the color line / Natalie J. Ring; title: "Nature is the author of such restrictions": science, ethnological medicine, and Jim Crow / Melissa Stein; title: From the "ladies' car" to the "colored car": black female travelers in the segregated South / Mia Bay; title: Is marriage a civil right? the politics of intimacy in the Jim Crow era / Jane Dailey.