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Crime and punishment in the Jim Crow South
\"In recent years, there has been renewed attention to problems pervading the criminal justice system in the United States. The prison population has grown exponentially since 1970 due to the war on drugs, minimum sentencing laws, and other crime control measures instituted in the 1980s and 1990s. The U.S. now incarcerates more people than any other nation in the world, over 2 million in 2016. African Americans constitute nearly half of those prisoners. This volume contributes to current debates on the criminal justice system by filling a crucial gap in scholarship with ten original essays by both established and up-and-coming historians on the topics of crime and state punishment in the Jim Crow era. In particular, these essays address the relationship between the modern state, crime control, and white supremacy. Essays in the collection show that the development of the modern penal system was part and parcel of Jim Crow, and so are the racial injustices endemic to it. The essays that Wood and Ring have curated enrich our understanding of how the penal system impacted the New South; demonstrate the centrality of the carceral regime in producing racial, gender, and legal categories in the New South; provide insightful analysis of intellectual work around the U.S. prison regime; use the penal system to make a case for Southern exceptionalism; and extend conversations about the penal system's restriction of African American political and civil rights. As a whole, the volume provides a nuanced portrait of the dynamic between state power and white supremacy in the South beyond a story of top-down social control\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Problem South
For most historians, the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw the hostilities of the Civil War and the dashed hopes of Reconstruction give way to the nationalizing forces of cultural reunion, a process that is said to have downplayed sectional grievances and celebrated racial and industrial harmony. In truth, says Natalie J. Ring, this buoyant mythology competed with an equally powerful and far-reaching set of representations of the backward Problem South-one that shaped and reflected attempts by northern philanthropists, southern liberals, and federal experts to rehabilitate and reform the country's benighted region. Ring rewrites the history of sectional reconciliation and demonstrates how this group used the persuasive language of social science and regionalism to reconcile the paradox of poverty and progress by suggesting that the region was moving through an evolutionary period of \"readjustment\" toward a more perfect state of civilization.In addition,The Problem Southcontends that the transformation of the region into a mission field and laboratory for social change took place in a transnational moment of reform. Ambitious efforts to improve the economic welfare of the southern farmer, eradicate such diseases as malaria and hookworm, educate the southern populace, \"uplift\" poor whites, and solve the brewing \"race problem\" mirrored the colonial problems vexing the architects of empire around the globe. It was no coincidence, Ring argues, that the regulatory state's efforts to solve the \"southern problem\" and reformers' increasing reliance on social scientific methodology occurred during the height of U.S. imperial expansion.
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Robert Penn Warrens Who Speaks fat the Negro? An Archival Collection
Ring reviews Robert Penn Warren's Who Speaks for the Negro? An Archival Collection, a Web site available at http:/whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu/, created and maintained by the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Vanderbilt University. The site features interviews Warren conducted with civil rights activists after journeying through the US.
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The folly of Jim Crow : rethinking the segregated South
Although the origins, application, and socio-historical implications of the Jim Crow system have been studied and debated for at least the last three-quarters of a century, nuanced understanding of this complex cultural construct is still evolving, according to Stephanie Cole and Natalie J. Ring, coeditors of The Folly of Jim Crow: Rethinking the Segregated South. Indeed, they suggest, scholars may profit from a careful examination of previous assumptions and conclusions along the lines suggested by the studies in this important new collection.
Based on the March 2008 Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures at the University of Texas at Arlington, this forty-third volume in the prestigious series undertakes a close review of both the history and the historiography of the Jim Crow South. The studies in this collection incorporate important perspectives that have developed during the past two decades among scholars interested in gender and politics, the culture of resistance, and the hegemonic function of ‘whiteness.’
By asking fresh questions and critically examining long-held beliefs, the new studies contained in The Folly of Jim Crow will, ironically, reinforce at least one of the key observations made in C. Vann Woodward’s landmark 1955 study: In its idiosyncratic, contradictory, and multifaceted development and application, the career of Jim Crow was, indeed, strange. Further, as these studies demonstrate—and as alluded to in the title—it is folly to attempt to locate the genesis of the South’s institutional racial segregation in any single event, era, or policy. Instead, as W. Fitzhugh Brundage notes in his introduction to the volume, formal segregation evolved through an untidy process of experimentation and adaptation.
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Inventing the Tropical South: Race, Region, and the Colonial Model
Ring discusses one particular way in which the US South was figured as the tropical \"Other,\" as a diseased and degenerative space. She asserts that the invention of Southern tropicality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries included the use of medical geographies, regional surveys that stressed the problems of race and climate, and travelers' accounts documenting the \"Other\" in a neo-orientalist discourse. She further comments that in analyzing the process by which the tropical South was culturally constructed, one can begin to move away from thinking about the US South as an anomaly in an exceptionalist nation.
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The Paradox of the Business and Political Economy of the New South
This chapter engages with several aspects of the political economy of the New South, with a particular focus on cotton. It describes how academic interest in continuity or discontinuity between the political economy of the Old South and the New South has been intrinsically tied to the question of distinctiveness. The chapter explains how a late nineteenth-century belief in what called the paradox of poverty and progress – that the South paradoxically seemed to be moving toward modernization while simultaneously remaining in a state of backwardness – shaped historiography on the political economy of the South with its fixation on the continuity–discontinuity and North–South binary. It also explains how there are two ways to break free from the propensity to frame the history of the political economy in the South in terms of the region's agrarian rural characteristics as contrasted with the North's industrial modern features.
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Forum: What's New in Southern Studies – And Why Should We Care?
In this forum, seven established scholars of the US South, working from a variety of institutional and intellectual bases, discuss the latest developments in southern studies, connecting them to broader trends within American studies and in their own home disciplines, particularly literature, cultural studies, and history. Critically engaging with recent work in the New Southern Studies, the participants consider the importance – or otherwise – of recent theoretical, especially transnational and interdisciplinary, moves within the field of southern studies. In the process, the contributions, individually and collectively, offer a provocative assessment of what has been really innovative and of lasting significance in the field over the past decade. Equally important, the essays contemplate the topics, time frames and analytical techniques that might drive important research in both southern and American studies in the future.
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EPILOGUE
In 1926, Edwin Mims, chair of the literature department at Vanderbilt University, wrote inThe Advancing Souththat “the conflict between the forces of progress and reaction has been going on ever since Appomattox.” Writing on the heels of the Scopes trial in Dayton, Tennessee, which pitted the fundamentalist southern guard against the modernist forces who embraced the theory of evolution, Mims described how a wave of people and organizations were “carrying on a veritable war of liberation in the Southern States.” He considered himself, along with individuals such as Walter Hines Page and Edgar Gardner Murphy, a model for
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INTRODUCTION
In 1920 Henry Louis Mencken published a scathing essay titled “The Sahara of the Bozart” in which he derided the American South for its lack of culture, political ignorance, degraded Anglo-Saxon stock, and “vexatious public problems.” He remarked, “It is, indeed, amazing to contemplate so vast a vacuity” and concluded that “for all its size and all its wealth and all the ‘progress’ it babbles of, it is almost as sterile, artistically, intellectually, culturally, as the Sahara Desert.” In fact, Mencken added, “It would be impossible in all history to match so complete a drying-up of a civilization.” Mencken also
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