Remaking the Rural South: Interracialism, Christian Socialism, and Cooperative Farming in Jim Crow Mississippi (Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South Ser.)
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (965 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0820351792 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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His work has been published in Arkansas Review, Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Journal of Southern History, Southern Cultures, and North Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times, Volume 1 (Georgia). Robert Hunt Ferguson is an assistant professor of history at Western Carolina University.
About the Author Robert Hunt Ferguson is an assistant professor of history at Western Carolina University. . His work has been published in Arkansas Review, Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Journal of Southern History, Southern Cultures, and North Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times, Volume 1 (Georgia)
Thus began a twenty-year experimentacross two communitiesin interracialism, Christian socialism, cooperative farming, and civil and economic activism.Robert Hunt Ferguson recalls the genesis of Delta and Providence: how they were modeled after cooperative farms in Japan and Soviet Russia and how they rose in reaction to the exploitation of small- scale, dispossessed farmers. On these farms, residents developed a cooperative economy, operated a desegregated health clinic, held interracial church services and labor union meetings, and managed a credit union. In the winter of 1936, two dozen black and white ex-sharecropping families settled on some two thousand acres in the rural Mississippi Delta, one of the most insular and oppressive regions in the nation. Ferguson tells how a variety of factors related to World War II forced the closing of Delta, while Providence finally succumbed to economic boycotts and outside threats from white racists.Remaking the Rural South shows how a small group of committed people challenged hegemonic social and economic structures by going about their daily