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Edited by Matthew L. Downs and M. Ryan Floyd, The American South
and the Great War, 1914- 1924 investigates how American
participation in World War I further strained the region's
relationship with the federal government, how wartime hardships
altered the South's traditional social structure, and how the war
effort stressed and reshaped the southern economy. The volume
contends that participation in World War I contributed greatly to
the modernization of the South, initiating changes ultimately
realized during World War II and the postwar era. Although the war
had a tremendous impact on the region, few scholars have analyzed
the topic in a comprehensive fashion, making this collection a
much-needed addition to the study of American and southern history.
These essays address a variety of subjects, including civil rights,
economic growth and development, politics and foreign policy,
women's history, gender history, and military history.
Collectively, this volume highlights a time and an experience often
overshadowed by later events, illustrating the importance of World
War I in the emergence of a modern South.
This book explores the changing food culture of the urban American
South during the Jim Crow era by examining how race, ethnicity,
class, and gender contributed to the development and maintenance of
racial segregation in public eating places. Focusing primarily on
the 1900s to the 1960s, Angela Jill Cooley identifies the cultural
differences between activists who saw public eating places like
urban lunch counters as sites of political participation and
believed access to such spaces a right of citizenship, and white
supremacists who interpreted desegregation as a challenge to
property rights and advocated local control over racial issues.
Significant legal changes occurred across this period as the
federal government sided at first with the white supremacists but
later supported the unprecedented progress of the Civil Rights Act
of 1964, which-among other things-required desegregation of the
nation's restaurants. Because the culture of white supremacy that
contributed to racial segregation in public accommodations began in
the white southern home, Cooley also explores domestic eating
practices in nascent southern cities and reveals how the most
private of activities-cooking and dining- became a cause for public
concern from the meeting rooms of local women's clubs to the halls
of the U.S. Congress.
This book explores the changing food culture of the urban American
South during the Jim Crow era by examining how race, ethnicity,
class, and gender contributed to the development and maintenance of
racial segregation in public eating places. Focusing primarily on
the 1900s to the 1960s, Angela Jill Cooley identifies the cultural
differences between activists who saw public eating places like
urban lunch counters as sites of political participation and
believed access to such spaces a right of citizenship, and white
supremacists who interpreted desegregation as a challenge to
property rights and advocated local control over racial issues.
Significant legal changes occurred across this period as the
federal government sided at first with the white supremacists but
later supported the unprecedented progress of the Civil Rights Act
of 1964, which-among other things-required desegregation of the
nation's restaurants. Because the culture of white supremacy that
contributed to racial segregation in public accommodations began in
the white southern home, Cooley also explores domestic eating
practices in nascent southern cities and reveals how the most
private of activities-cooking and dining- became a cause for public
concern from the meeting rooms of local women's clubs to the halls
of the U.S. Congress.
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