9781603445825-160344582X-The Folly of Jim Crow: Rethinking the Segregated South (Volume 43) (Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures, published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press)

The Folly of Jim Crow: Rethinking the Segregated South (Volume 43) (Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures, published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press)

ISBN-13: 9781603445825
ISBN-10: 160344582X
Author: Natalie J. Ring, Stephanie Cole
Publication date: 2012
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Format: Hardcover 256 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781603445825
ISBN-10: 160344582X
Author: Natalie J. Ring, Stephanie Cole
Publication date: 2012
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Format: Hardcover 256 pages

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The Folly of Jim Crow: Rethinking the Segregated South (Volume 43) (Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures, published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press) (ISBN-13: 9781603445825 and ISBN-10: 160344582X), written by authors Natalie J. Ring, Stephanie Cole, was published by Texas A&M University Press in 2012. With an overall rating of 4.3 stars, it's a notable title among other State & Local (United States History, Americas History) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Folly of Jim Crow: Rethinking the Segregated South (Volume 43) (Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures, published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used State & Local books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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Although the origins, application, and socio-historical implications of the Jim Crow system have been studied and debated for at least the last three-quarters of a century, nuanced understanding of this complex cultural construct is still evolving, according to Stephanie Cole and Natalie J. Ring, coeditors of The Folly of Jim Crow: Rethinking the Segregated South. Indeed, they suggest, scholars may profit from a careful examination of previous assumptions and conclusions along the lines suggested by the studies in this important new collection.

Based on the March 2008 Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures at the University of Texas at Arlington, this forty-third volume in the prestigious series undertakes a close review of both the history and the historiography of the Jim Crow South. The studies in this collection incorporate important perspectives that have developed during the past two decades among scholars interested in gender and politics, the culture of resistance, and "the hegemonic function of ‘whiteness.’"

By asking fresh questions and critically examining long-held beliefs, the new studies contained in The Folly of Jim Crow will, ironically, reinforce at least one of the key observations made in C. Vann Woodward’s landmark 1955 study: In its idiosyncratic, contradictory, and multifaceted development and application, the career of Jim Crow was, indeed, strange. Further, as these studies demonstrate—and as alluded to in the title—it is folly to attempt to locate the genesis of the South’s institutional racial segregation in any single event, era, or policy. "Instead," as W. Fitzhugh Brundage notes in his introduction to the volume, "formal segregation evolved through an untidy process of experimentation and adaptation."

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