Race Unequals - Overseer Contracts, White Masculinities, and the Formation of

Informationen zum Autor By Teri A. McMurtry-Chubb Klappentext This study examines white male identity in the plantation economy of the antebellum American South. By analyzing employment contracts between plantation owners and their overseers, and the web of public and private law that surrounded them, this book challenges notions of a monolithic white male identity. Zusammenfassung This study examines white male identity in the plantation economy of the antebellum American South. By analyzing employment contracts between plantation owners and their overseers, and the web of public and private law that surrounded them, this book challenges notions of a monolithic white male identity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The World The Planters Made Chapter 1: The Overseer, His Contracts, and His Contractual Relationships Chapter 2: Profitable Planters, Industrious Overseers, Maintaining the Status Quo Chapter 3: "Pushing" Torture, Managing Violence, and Planter Regulation of Overseer Control Chapter 4: White Masculinities, Private Law, and the Battle for Social Control Chapter 5: Immoral Men, Immoral Ends, Deference as Social Death Epilogue: The "Lost Cause" and the Legacy of Plantation Management Bibliography About the Author

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• Autori: Teri A. McMurtry-Chubb
• Editore: Lexington Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 15.03.2023
• EAN: 9781498599085
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-9908-5
• Pagine: 148
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Labour / income economics, Labour Economics, Local History, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Central Southern States, US South, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General