Resident Strangers : Immigrant Laborers in New South Alabama /

"Jennifer Brooks's Resident Strangers recovers the lost history of non-native laborers in the New South, utilizing the state of Alabama from 1865 through 1914 as the primary focus. Several immigrant groups-Chinese, southern, central, northern, and eastern Europeans, British, and Africans-a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Brooks, Jennifer E. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2022]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social conditions.
Race relations.
Immigrants.
Foreign workers.
Immigrants > Alabama > History.
Foreign workers > Alabama > History.
Alabama.
Alabama > Race relations.
Alabama > Social conditions.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • "The Bone and Sinew of Other States and Countries": Planters, Industrialists, and Immigrant Recruitment in New South Alabama
  • "John Chinaman" in New South Alabama
  • "Italians . . . in the Colored Quarters": Immigrant and African American Encounters in New South Alabama
  • "A Few Depraved White Men and the Worst Element of Negroes": Immigrants, African Americans, and the Birmingham Strikes
  • "The Land of Snakes, Crocodiles, Negroes, Yellow Fever, and Death": The Immigrant Experience in New South Alabama
  • "The Scum of the Foreign Element": The Trials of the Blocton Four
  • Conclusion.

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