Vitally linked to the Caribbean and southern Europe as well as to
the Confederacy, the Cigar City of Tampa, Florida, never fit
comfortably into the biracial mold of the New South. In Southern
Discomfort, the esteemed historian Nancy A. Hewitt explores the
interactions among distinct groups of women -- native-born white,
African-American, and Cuban and Italian immigrant women -- that
shaped women's activism in this vibrant, multiethnic city.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, several historical
currents converged in Tampa. The city served as a center for exiles
organizing on behalf of the Cuban War of Independence and as the
disembarkation point for U.S. troops heading to Cuba in 1898. It
was the entrepot for thousands of Cuban and Italian immigrants
seeking work in the booming cigar trade, and it attracted dozens of
itinerant radicals eager to address locally based revolutionary
clubs, mutual aid societies, and labor unions. Tampa was also home
to an astonishing array of voluntary and reform organizations among
black and white native-born women.
Emphasizing the process by which women of particular racial,
ethnic, and class backgrounds forged and reformulated their
activist identities, this masterful volume recasts our
understanding of southern history by demonstrating how Tampa's
tri-racial networks alternately challenged and reinscribed the
South's biracial social and political order.
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