The Southern Elite and Social Change

The Southern Elite and Social Change
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Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Total Pages : 244
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ISBN-10 : 9781557287205
ISBN-13 : 1557287201
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Book Synopsis The Southern Elite and Social Change by : Randy Finley

Download or read book The Southern Elite and Social Change written by Randy Finley and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2002-03-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elites have shaped southern life and communities, argues the distinguished historian Willard Gatewood. These essays—written by Gatewood's colleagues and former students in his honor—explore the influence of particular elites in the South from the American Revolution to the Little Rock integration crisis. They discuss not only the power of elites to shape the experiences of the ordinary people, but the tensions and negotiations between elites in a particular locale, whether those elites were white or black, urban or rural, or male or female. Subjects include the particular kinds of power available to black elites in Savannah, Georgia, during the American Revolution; the transformation of a southern secessionist into an anti-slavery activist during the Civil War; a Tenessee "aristocrat of color" active in politics from Reconstruction to World War II; middle-class Southern women, both black and white, in the New Deal and the Little Rock integration crisis; and the different brands of paternalism in Arkansas plantations during the Jacksonian and Jim Crow eras and in the postwar Georgia carpet industry.


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