Ned Cobb's children: A new look at white supremacy in the rural southern US |
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| Authors: | Associate Professor Alex Lichtenstein |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Anthropology , The Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore , MD , 21218 , USA;2. Carnegie‐Mellon University , 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh , PA , 15213 , USA;3. School of History , The University of Birmingham , PO Box 363, Birmingham , B15 2TT;4. Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology , University of Keek , Keele , Staffordshire , ST5 5BG;5. Department of History , University of Kent at Canterbury , Canterbury , Kent , England , CT2 7NZ |
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| Abstract: | 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. |
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