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Author
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Michelle Brattain is Assistant Professor of History at Georgia State University.
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 Great Depression to the 1970s, Michelle Brattain paints a richly textured local...
Publisher
University Press of Florida
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power presents fresh and original scholarship that reexamines and reinterprets the field. Collectively, these essays cover virtually the entire span of United States history, from the early national period following the American Revolution through the twenty-first century. The essays that examine the antebellum South will demonstrate that the problems of southern labor in that era still carry...
8) Looking south: race, gender, and the transformation of labor from reconstruction to globalization
Author
Publisher
University Press of Florida
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Series
Papers of the NAACP. Part 10 Peonage labor and the New Deal 1913-1939 volume reel 19, fr. 0289-0417
Publisher
University Publications of America
Pub. Date
[c1990]
Language
English
Description
Correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, press releases, clippings, reports, and articles documenting NAACP cooperation with the STFU in the late 1930's. Many of the materials are STFU press releases and information letters documenting the union's struggles on behalf of tenant farmers in the south.