Beyond Black and White: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Us South and Southwest (Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures): 35 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1585442976 ISBN 13: 9781585442973

Publisher: Texas A & M University Press, 2004

Synopsis

This work brings up-to-date perspectives to the oversimplification of racial categories and new insight into the complexity of social relationships in these two important regions. It should be of use to those interested in social activism directed toward racial, ethnic, and gender issues.

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Review:

"The complex, changing and oppressive 'multiracisms'--to use Ronit Lentin's term--of the U.S. South and Southwest are brilliantly captured in this powerful collection of linked essays. So too are the ways in which differing but overlapping experiences of race, citizenship and terror created both common ground and grounds for division among racialized groups."--David Roediger, University of Illinois, and author, Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past--David Roediger, University of Illinois, and author, Colored White: Transcendi

About the Author:

Stephanie Cole, associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Arlington, is the author of the forthcoming book, Servants and Slaves: Domestic Service in the North/South Antebellum Border Cities.Alison Parker, associate professor of history at SUNY-Brockport, is the author of Purifying America Women, Cultural Reform, and ProCensorship Activism, 1873-1933.

About this edition

• Publisher: Texas A & M University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1585442976
• ISBN 13: 9781585442973
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Cole Stephanie, Parker Alison M.