Ned Cobb's children

A new look at white supremacy in the rural southern US

Bibliographic Data

ID2158201
AuthorsAlex Lichtenstein (0000-0002-9928-4247, corresponding author)
Year2006
Volume33
Issue1
Pages124-139
Publication date2006-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Peasant Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0306-6150 • E-ISSN: 1743-9361
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03066150600624579
OpenAlexW2058704420
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited46

Many scholars regard segregation in the US South as part of urbanization and modernization. Yet few have examined race relations in the countryside. The Rural Face of White Supremacy shows that absolute separation based on race proved poorly adapted to rural life. Inspired by the sociological studies of the rural South done in the 1930s and the 1940s, this book uses oral history to show that interracial social life in mid-twentieth century rural Georgia was 'marked by intimacy as well as white supremacy.' Race relations reflected the paternalism and dependence of an agrarian labour system that reduced black workers to the status of a peasantry

Agrarian society · Agriculture · CobB · Economic growth · Economics · Face (sociological concept · Geography · Modernization theory · Paternalism · Political economy · Political science · Race (biology · Rural area · Social science · Sociology · Urbanization · White (mutation · White supremacy · Gender Studies · Law · Race, History, and American Society