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The dispossessed : America's underclasses from the Civil War to the present / Jacqueline Jones

Catalog Data

Author:
Jones, Jacqueline 1948-  Search this
Physical description:
xiii, 399 p. ; 25 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Southern States
Date:
1992
C1992
Contents:
At the crossroads of freedom : black field workers -- Pride of race and its limits : white field workers -- Family economy of rural southerners, 1870 to 1930 -- Shifting and "Shiftlessness" : annual plantation turnover 1870 to 1930 -- Bound and free black and white laborers between field and factory : the South's rural nonagricultural sector, 1875-1930 -- "Golden Florida made ready for them too" : East coast migratory laborers, 1890-1990 -- Separate ways : deep South Black and Appalachian White migrants to the midwest -- Ghettos and the lack of them : southern migrants in the midwest -- American "Underclasses" in the late Twentieth Century
Topic:
African Americans--Economic conditions  Search this
Rural poor--History  Search this
Rural conditions  Search this
Call number:
E185.8.J77 1992X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_424088