Table of Contents

Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 3 Chapter 1: by Laura Edwards The Politics of Marriage and Households in North Carolina during Reconstruction 7 Chapter 2: by Elsa Barkely Brown Negotiating and Transforming the Public Sphere: African American Political Life in the Transition from Slavery to Freedom 28 Chapter 3: by Stephen Kantrowwitz One Man's Mob Is Another Man's Militia: Violence, Manhood, and Authority in Reconstruction South Carolina 67 Chapter 4: by Jane Daily The Limits of Liberalism in the New South: The Politics of Race, Sex, and Patronage in Virginia, 1879-1883 88 Chapter 5: by W. Fitzhugh Brundage White Women and the Politics of Historical Memory in the New South, 1880-1920 115 Chapter 6: by David F. Godshalk William J. Northen's Public and Personal Struggles against Lynching 140 Chapter 7: by Grace Elizabeth Hale "For Colored" and "For White": Segregating Consumption in the South 162 Chapter 8: by Nancy MacLean The Leo Frank Case Reconsidered: Vender and Sexual Politics in the Making of Reactionary Populism 183 Chapter 9: by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore False Friends and Avowed Enemies: Southern African Americans and Party Allegiances in the 1920s 219 Chapter 10: by Bryant Simon Race Reactions: African American Organizing, Liberalism, and White Working-Class Politics in Postwar South Carolina 239 Chapter 11: by Kari Frederickson "As a Man, I Am Interested in States' Rights": Gender, Race, and the Family in the Dixiecrat Party, 1948-195O 260 Chapter 12: by Timothy B. Tyson Dynamite and "The Silent South": A Story from the Second Reconstruction in South Carolina 275 Afterwards Portraying Power by Edward Ayers 301 Reflections by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall 304 The Shoah and Southern History by Nell Irvin Painter 308 Contributors 311 Index 315

Promotional Information

This volume is especially pertinent because so many historians over the last decade have de-emphasized the importance of race in the South... These essays argue that the central dance of southern history was the efforts of whites to dominate African Americans. Expanding the definition of the political to include the front porch, these essays bridge 'the distance between public and private contests for power and dignity.' Focusing on the role of African Americans, dissident whites, and especially black and white women, these essays help explain how the most progressive of reform movements, the Civil Rights Movement, came out of what has been viewed by too many for too long as the 'backward' South. -- Vernon Burton, author of "In My Father's House Are Many Mansions" and "A Gentleman and an Officer" This important book offers a pathbreaking approach to the study of southern politics and culture. Finding the political in 'unlikely spaces,' these essays require us to rethink the foundations of white supremacy and of southern history more generally. -- Drew Gilpin Faust, Annenberg Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania

About the Author

Jane Dailey is Assistant Professor of History at Rice University and author of Before Jim Crow: The Politics of Race in Post-Emancipation Virginia.
Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore is Professor of History at Yale and author of Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920.
Bryant Simon is Associate Professor of History at the University of Georgia and author of A Fabric of Defeat: The Politics of South Carolina Millhands, 1910-1948.

Reviews

"In its linking of culture and social relations with politics, Jumpin' Jim Crow is cutting edge history and belongs in every academic library."--Library Journal "Jumpin Jim Crow offers a valuable contribution to the study of race relations in the American South."--Junius P. Rodriguez, History "This is a very important book. It might easily have been subtitled A Treatise on the New Southern Political History. The essays in it are important ones, and they hold together very well."--Glen Feldman, The Virginia Magazine "In short, this collection is a revision of how historians think about the postbellum South... It is an important and provocative book."--Clarence E. Walker, The Journal of Southern History "A central contribution to these essays ... is to our understanding of how the conflation of notions of manhood, paternalism, and white supremacy blurred and bridged the distinction between the public and private spheres in Southern life and politics."--Robert P. Green Jr., The Historian