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Race Unequals - Overseer Contracts, White Masculinities, and the Formation of Managerial Identity in the Plantation Economy (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,134
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Race Unequals - Overseer Contracts, White Masculinities, and the Formation of Managerial Identity in the Plantation Economy...

Race Unequals - Overseer Contracts, White Masculinities, and the Formation of Managerial Identity in the Plantation Economy (Hardcover)

Teri A McMurtry-Chubb

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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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Imprint: Lexington Books
Country of origin: United States
Release date: April 2021
Authors: Teri A McMurtry-Chubb
Dimensions: 228 x 164 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-9906-1
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Humanities > History > American history > General
Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Labour economics > General
Books > History > American history > General
Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
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LSN: 1-4985-9906-0
Barcode: 9781498599061

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