The politics of whiteness : race, workers, and culture in the modern South /
"The Politics of Whiteness presents the first sustained analysis of white racial identity among workers in what was the South's largest industry - the textile industry - for much of the twentieth century. Grounding her work in a study of Rome, Georgia, and surrounding Floyd County from the...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©2001.
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Series: | Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Boosterism, whiteness, and paternalism in the new south: the creation of wage work
- "Labor's best friend": Talmadge, paternalism, and the 1934 strike
- "So-called fair employment": World War II and whiteness
- "Still a white man's Georgia": PAC, Operation Dixie, and the resurgence of Talmadgism
- "Some Romans have red faces": the 1948 strikes
- Making friends and enemies: political action in postwar Georgia
- The "so-called 'Civil Rights' Bill" and the republicanization of Rome.