Gerteis / Adams / Steinmetz Class and the Color Line

Interracial Class Coalition in the Knights of Labor and the Populist Movement
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9023-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 286 Seiten

Reihe: Politics, History, and Culture

This ms studies class and race boundaries, and interracial political coalitions, in two significant 19th century social movements--the Knights of Labor and the Populist movement.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gerteis, Joseph

Adams, Julia

Steinmetz, George

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction 1

1. Republican Radicalism 15

2. Race, Class, and Republican Virtue in the Knights of Labor 49

3. The Knights of Labor in Richmond, Virginia 76

4. The Knights of Labor in Atlanta, Georgia 102

5. Race and the Populist “Hayseed Revolution” 126

6. Race and the Agrarian Revolt in Georgia 151

7. Race and the Agrarian Revolt in Virginia 176

8. Class, Status, Power, and the Interracial Project 201

Appendix: Data Collection, Sources ,and Methods 211

Notes 221

References 253

Index 269

Über Autor(innen)

Joseph Gerteis is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. He is a coeditor of Classical Sociological Theory and Contemporary Sociological Theory. Class and the Color Line won the 2005 President’s Book Award from the Social Science History Association.