Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 266 pages)
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illustrations, maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg.]
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Newman, Mark Spirit of rebellion. Labor and religion in the new cotton south. By Jarold Roll. (The Working Class in American History.) Pp. xiii+272 incl. 4 maps and 6 figs. Urbana–Chicago–Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2010. 30 (paper). 978 0 252 03519 7, 978 0 252 07703 6 2012
Series Statement:
The working class in American history
Parallel Title:
Print version Roll, Jarod Spirit of rebellion
DDC:
305.9/6309778909041
Keywords:
Tenant farmers History
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African American farmers History
;
Labor movement History
;
Working class Religious life
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History
;
Tenant farmers History
;
African American farmers History
;
Labor movement History
;
Working class Religious life
;
History
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
;
RELIGION ; General
;
African American farmers
;
Labor movement
;
Tenant farmers
;
Working class ; Religious life
;
History
;
Missouri
Abstract:
Winner of the Herbert G. Gutman Prize from the Labor and Working-Class History Association In Spirit of Rebellion, Jarod Roll documents an alternative tradition of American protest by linking working-class political movements to grassroots religious revivals. He reveals how ordinary rural citizens in the south used available resources and their shared faith to defend their agrarian livelihoods amid the political and economic upheaval of the first half of the twentieth century. On the frontier of the New Cotton South in Missouri's Bootheel, the relationships between black and white farmers were complicated by racial tensions and bitter competition. Despite these divisions, workers found common ground as dissidents fighting for economic security, decent housing, and basic health, ultimately drawing on the democratic potential of evangelical religion to wage working-class revolts against commodity agriculture and the political forces that buoyed it. Roll convincingly shows how the moral clarity and spiritual vigor these working people found in the burgeoning Pentecostal revivals gave them the courage and fortitude to develop an expansive agenda of workers' rights by tapping into the powers of existing organizations such as the Socialist Party, the Universal Negro Improvement Association, the NAACP, and the interracial Southern Tenant Farmers' Union
Abstract:
Introduction -- A modern promised land -- Jerusalem -- Saviors of agriculture -- No more mourning -- Bear our burdens together -- On Jordan's stormy banks -- Epilogue
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-252) and index
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