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Race Unequals - Overseer Contracts, White Masculinities, and the Formation of Managerial Identity in the Plantation Economy (Hardcover)
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Race Unequals - Overseer Contracts, White Masculinities, and the Formation of Managerial Identity in the Plantation Economy (Hardcover)
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Race Unequals: Overseer Contracts, White Masculinities, and the
Formation of Managerial Identity in the Plantation Economy is a
re-imagining of the plantation not as Black and White, but in
shades of White male identity. Through an examination of employment
contracts between plantation owners and their overseers, and the
web of public and private law that surrounded them, this book
challenges notions of a monolithic White male identity in the
antebellum South. It considers how race provided White men access
to the land and enslaved labor that were foundational to the
plantation economy, but how the wealthiest of those men used
contracts, public law, and plantation management schemes to limit
the access points by which overseers, the first managerial class in
the United States, could achieve upward mobility as both White
people and as men. In navigating the legal and social parameters of
their employment contracts, overseers negotiated a white
masculinity that formed their managerial identity. This managerial
identity carried the imprint of white supremacy necessary to
preserve inequities on the plantation, and perhaps in our modern
workplaces as well.
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