Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore (Yale University)

Broschiertes Buch

Defying Dixie

The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950

Beschreibung

"Remarkable . . . an eye-opening book [on] the freedom struggle that changed the South, the nation, and the world." -Washington Post

Autor

Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore is the Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History, African American Studies, and American Studies at Yale University. Her research interests include twentieth-century U.S. history; African American history since 1865; U.S. women's and gender history since 1865; history of the American South; and reform movements. Her publications include Norton's Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950, which was one of the American Library Association's Notable Books and the Washington Post's Best Books of 2008, and she edited Who Were the Progressives? and co-edited Jumpin' Jim Crow: Southern Politics from Civil War to Civil Rights. Her first book, Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920, won the Frederick Jackson Turner Award, the James A. Rawley Prize, the Julia Cherry Spruill Prize, and the Heyman Prize.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Norton / W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 690
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 140mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 856g
• ISBN-13: 9780393335323
• ISBN-10: 0393335321
• Artikelnr.: 26153695