Remaking the rural South : interracialism, Christian socialism, and cooperative farming in Jim Crow Mississippi /
This is the first book-length study of the Delta Cooperative Farm (1936-42) and its descendant, Providence Farm (1938-56). The two intentional communities drew on internationalist practices of cooperative communalism and pragmatically challenged Jim Crow segregation and plantation labor. In the win...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Athens :
The University of Georgia Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South.
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| Summary: | This is the first book-length study of the Delta Cooperative Farm (1936-42) and its descendant, Providence Farm (1938-56). The two intentional communities drew on internationalist practices of cooperative communalism and pragmatically challenged Jim Crow segregation and plantation labor. 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. Thus began a twenty-year experiment - across two communities - in interracialism, Christian socialism, cooperative farming, and civil and economic activism... Remaking the rural South shows how a small group of committed people challenged hegemonic social and economic structures by going about their daily routines. Far from living in a closed society, activists at Delta and Providence engaged in a local movement with national and international roots and consequences. -- Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 211 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780820351797 0820351792 |