Bryan Jones

The Southern Fault Line (eBook, ePUB)

How Race, Class, and Region Shaped One Family's History

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Opposing perspectives on the desirability of democracy and equality dominates white Southern history. Both before and after the end of slavery, plantation oligarchs rejected democracy, while small farmers in the upcountry embraced it--if only for whites. Drawing from his own family's centuries-old roots in the region, the eminent American politics scholar Bryan Jones compares the experiences of a slaveholding line with three non-slaveholding lines to retell the entire history of the region. Through his family's history across a host of Southern states, he retells in vivid detail the ceaseless battle between Southern oligarchy and democracy--and how racial politics threads through all of it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP eBook
• Seitenzahl: 472
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197770443
• Artikelnr.: 72870096

Autorenporträt

Bryan Jones is J.J."Jake" Pickle Regents' Chair in Congressional Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests center on the study of public policy processes, American governing institutions, and the connection between human decision-making and organizational behavior. He directs the U.S. Policy Agendas Project, the major resource for examining changes in public policy processes in American national institutions. The Policy Agendas system has been adopted in thirty countries, allowing comparisons of policy change worldwide.

Inhaltsangabe

Forward
Chapter 1: Southern Democracy or Southern Oligarchy
Chapter 2: Blount and Sumter
Part 1: Slaves, Owners, and the Black Belt
Chapter 3: The Lasting Legacy of Slavery
Chapter 4: Plantation Politics
Chapter 5: Myth and Reality in the Black Belt
Part 2: Upland Uprising On Sand Mountain
Chapter 6: Removals, Religion, and the White Republic
Chapter 7: North Alabama Sand Mountain People
Chapter 8: Yeoman Farming in the Mountains
Chapter 9: North Alabama in War and Reconstruction
Chapter 10: "The Blowhard of Blount"
Chapter 11: "Our Demosthenes"
Part 3: Traverses of the Common White Man
Chapter 12: The Two Faces of Brother Charley Jones
Chapter 13: Charley Jones Goes to War
Chapter 14: The Life of a South Alabama Tenant Farmer
Chapter 15: "I Was Greatly Embarrassed Because of My Ignorance"
Part 4: The Brackets of Jim Crow
Chapter 16: A Lynching Thwarted and a Brutal Murder
Chapter 17: The Arc of Injustice
Part 5: The Tragic Failure of Southern Moderates
Chapter 18: The Greatest Generation
Chapter 19: Three Southern Editors
Chapter 20: The Center Does Not Hold: The Evolution of an Editor
Part 6: The Collapse of Jim Crow
Chapter 21: A Bad Hotdog and a Big Orange
Chapter 22: The Pallbearer Who Could Not Go Into the Church
Chapter 23: Roll Tide at High Tide
Chapter 24: Looking Back to Look Forward