The Southern fault line : how race, class, and region shaped one family's history /

'The Southern Fault Line' explores the under-appreciated division in the South between the oligarchic rule of plantation owners and industrialists on the one hand, and the more democratic mindset of the mountain-dwelling small farmers on the other. These two mindsets were in continual tens...

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1. Verfasser:
Jones, Bryan D.
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
Ausgabe:
First edition.
Zusammenfassung:
'The Southern Fault Line' explores the under-appreciated division in the South between the oligarchic rule of plantation owners and industrialists on the one hand, and the more democratic mindset of the mountain-dwelling small farmers on the other. These two mindsets were in continual tension from the 1800s to the 1960s, when the adherents of the more democratic side of the struggle capitulated to the oligarchical side in response to the Civil Rights movement. Bryan D. Jones draws from his own family's centuries-old history in the region to explore the rise and fall of the 'two minds' of the South. Through a comparison of the experiences of a slaveholding line in his family with three non-slaveholding lines, Jones provides a rich history of the politics of both class and race in the region from the Founding era to the present.
Umfang:
1 online resource (473 pages)
Zielpublikum:
Specialized.
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-777045-2
0-19-777043-6
0-19-777044-4
Schlagworte:
Jones, Bryan D. > Family.
Dean family.
Carr family.
Davidson family.
Jones family.
Biographies.
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