African American Life in the Rural South, 1900-1950

During the first half of the twentieth century, degradation, poverty, and hopelessness were commonplace for African Americans who lived in the South's countryside, either on farms or in rural communities. Many southern blacks sought relief from these conditions by migrating to urban centers. Many others, however, continued to live in rural areas. Scholars of African American rural history in the South have been concerned primarily with the experience of blacks as sharecroppers, tenant farmers, textile workers, and miners. Less attention has been given to other aspects of the rural African American experience during the early twentieth century. African American Life in the Rural South, 1900-1950 provides important new information about African American culture, social life, and religion, as well as economics, federal policy, migration, and civil rights. The essays particularly emphasize the efforts of African Americans to negotiate the white world in the southern countryside. Filling a void in southern studies, this outstanding collection provides a substantive overview of the subject. Scholars, students, and teachers of African American, southern, agricultural, and rural history will find this work invaluable

Geography · Political science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · History · Race, History, and American Society

• "Southern Patriarchy and the Figure of the White Woman in Gwendolyn Brooks's "A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon

  Molly Littlewood Mckibbin•African American Review•2011

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• The Ground Not Given

  Alyosha Goldstein•Social Text•2018

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• Rethinking King Cotton

  Scott Hicks•Arizona quarterly/ The Arizona…•2009

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• Food justice, intersectional agriculture, and the triple food movement

  Open Access•Bobby J Smith•Agriculture and Human Values•2019

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• Working in the shade

  Blake Harrison•Journal of Cultural Geography•2011

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