Populism in the South revisited
Subtitle: new interpretations and new departures
By: edited by James M. Beeby
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9781617032257; 9781617032332
Subjects: Politics and government; Race relations; Political culture; Southern States; Populism; Political aspects; Working class; Political activity; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : populism in the American South / James M. Beeby; title: "The race cry doesn't scare us"; title: or does it? : populism and race in Grant Parish, Louisiana / Joel Sipress; title: "Workingmen's democracy" in the deep South : the Knights of Labor in Georgia politics, 1884-1892 / Matthew Hild; title: "Of whom shall the third party be composed?" : urban laborers and the origins of the People's Party in Dallas, Texas / Alicia E. Rodriquez; title: Agrarian rebel, industrial workers : Tom Watson and the prospects of a farmer-labor alliance / Michael Pierce; title: "Hard times is the cry" : debt in populist thought in North Carolina / David Silkenat; title: Reconceptualizing Black populism in the New South / Omar H. Ali; title: Creating a New South : the political culture of deep South populism / Lewie Reece; title: "[T]he angels from heaven had come down and wiped their names off the registration books" : the demise of grassroots populism in North Carolina / James M. Beeby; title: Agrarian producerism after populism : socialism and Garveyism in the rural South / Jarod Roll.