Remaking the Rural South: Interracialism, Christian Socialism, and Cooperative Farming in Jim Crow Mississippi
(Part of the Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South Series)
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This is the first book-length study of 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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0820358800
ISBN13:9780820358802
Release Date:November 2020
Publisher:University of Georgia Press
Length:234 Pages
Weight:0.64 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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