Southern Discomfort

by Hewitt, Nancy A.

• ISBN13: 9780252071911
• ISBN10: 0252071913
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-01
• Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr

Summary

Vitally linked to the Caribbean and southern Europe as well as to the Confederacy, the Cigar City of Tampa, Florida, never fit comfortably into the biracial mold of the New South. In Southern Discomfort, respected historian Nancy A. Hewitt explores the interactions among distinct groups of women - native-born white, African American, Cuban and Italian immigrant women - that shaped women's activism in this vibrant, multiethnic city.
Southern Discomfort emphasizes the process by which women forged and reformulated their activist identities from Reconstruction through the U.S. declaration of war against Spain in April 1898, the industrywide cigar strike of 1901, and the emergence of progressive reform and labor militancy. This masterful volume also recasts our understanding of southern history by demonstrating how Tampa's triracial networks alternately challenged and reinscribed the South's biracial social and political order.

Author Biography

Nancy A. Hewitt is a professor of history at Rutgers University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
The Making of a Multiracial City, 1880-1901
Creating the Cigar City	p. 21
An Activist Mosaic	p. 38
Solidarity and Segregation	p. 67
Race Conflicts and Class Currents	p. 98
Kaleidoscopic Connections, 1902-29
African American Women Confront Jim Crow	p. 142
Anglo Women in the Era of Institution Building	p. 170
Latin Women from Exiles to Immigrants	p. 200
New Women	p. 222
Recasting Activist Identities	p. 248
Epilogue	p. 271
Notes	p. 277
Index	p. 335
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