Southern Nation
Congress and White Supremacy after Reconstruction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4874231 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gregg Cantrell (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 106 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 210-211 |
| Publication date | 2019-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Southern Nation: Congress and White Supremacy after Reconstruction, David A Bateman, 2018 |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jaz255 |
| OpenAlex | W2946841207 |
| Language | EN |
A brief review cannot do this book justice. Written by three generations of political scientists who double as political historians—David A. Bateman of Cornell University; his adviser, John S. Lapinski, of the University of Pennsylvania; and Lapinski's adviser, Ira Katznelson, of Columbia University—it is an ambitious, massive, magisterial effort to explain “how southern politics remade the United States above and below the Mason-Dixon Line” between 1877 and 1933 (p. 8). It takes its place alongside V. O. Key Jr.'s Southern Politics in State and Nation (1949) and C. Vann Woodward's Origins of the New South (1951) as one of the most important works on the topic. The book examines southerners in Congress after Reconstruction. From 1877 to 1900, southern lawmakers, deeply insecure about the survival of white supremacy, spent their limited political capital working to secure white hegemony. This often meant sacrificing critical economic policies such as the Blair Federal Educational Bill in the 1880s, which would have provided significant federal school funding but which southerners feared might “renew the active involvement of the nation in southern racial affairs” (p. 153). Similar things happened with tax and tariff policies
Economic history · Economic Justice · Hegemony · Legislature · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · White (mutation · White supremacy · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Law · Public Administration
“Compensate the Losers?” Economic Policy and the Origins of U.S. Partisan Realignment
Demagogues in action
Whiteness and Urban Planning
Composition in the Age of Neoliberalism
American political development and new challenges of causal inference
Reputation as Articulation
Switching sides but still fighting the Civil War in southern politics
Racism and pride in attitudes toward confederate symbols
Lethal Violence and the Racialized Failure of the American State
Race, power, and policy
Measuring Liberalism, Confronting Evil
The Blair Education Bill
Delineating Agriculture and Industry
Conflict over Congressional Reapportionment
Rethinking the Role of the Speaker
Rights by Fortune or Fight? Reexamining the Addition of Sex to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act
Checks and Balances, Veto Exceptionalism, and Constitutional Folk Wisdom
Federalism and Democratic Backsliding in Comparative Perspective
The Adaptability Paradox
Rethinking hybrid regimes
The South in American Political Development
Restoration” and representation
Let Our Ballots Secure What Our Bullets Have Won
Slavery, Reconstruction, and Bureaucratic Capacity in the American South
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |