Southern Discomfort Women's Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s-1920s
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Biografisk notat
Nancy A. Hewitt is an emerita professor of history and women's studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of Women's Activism and Social Change: Rochester, New York, 1822-1872 and coeditor of Visible Women: New Essays on American Activism.Southern Discomfort Women's Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s-1920s
Julia Cherry Spruill Prize, Southern Association for Women Historians, 2002.<br /><br /> "A splendid piece of work: rich in detail, soundly reasoned, and provocative in its implications for social historians' debates about identity. Hewitt's lucid, engaging prose makes the book a particularly good one for use in undergraduate classrooms, but specialists will also find it a most valuable read."--<i>Journal of American History</i> "Hewitt's book revises previous notions about the biracialism of Jim Crow. . . . Outstanding scholarship."--<i>Choice</i> "Enriches our understanding of women and gender in urban history through [the] astute analys[is] of women as key public actors and cultural symbols in the emerging city of Tampa."--<i>Urban History</i>
Hewitt 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. She also recasts our understanding of southern history by demonstrating how Tampa's triracial networks alternately challenged and re-inscribed the South's biracial social and political order.
Introduction 1
Part 1: The Making of a Multiracial City, 1880-1901
1. Creating the Cigar City 21
2. An Activist Mosaic 38
3. Solidarity and Segregation 67
4. Race Conflicts and Class Currents 98
Part 2: Kaleidoscopic Connections, 1902-29
5. African American Women Confront Jim Crow 142
6. Anglo Women in the Era of Institution Building 170
7. Latin Women from Exiles to Immigrants 200
8. New Women 222
9. Recasting Activist Identities 248
Epilogue 271
Notes 277
Index 335
Illustrations follow page 136
Julia Cherry Spruill Prize, Southern Association for Women Historians, 2002.<br /><br /> "A splendid piece of work: rich in detail, soundly reasoned, and provocative in its implications for social historians' debates about identity. Hewitt's lucid, engaging prose makes the book a particularly good one for use in undergraduate classrooms, but specialists will also find it a most valuable read."--<i>Journal of American History</i> "Hewitt's book revises previous notions about the biracialism of Jim Crow. . . . Outstanding scholarship."--<i>Choice</i> "Enriches our understanding of women and gender in urban history through [the] astute analys[is] of women as key public actors and cultural symbols in the emerging city of Tampa."--<i>Urban History</i>
Hewitt 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. She also recasts our understanding of southern history by demonstrating how Tampa's triracial networks alternately challenged and re-inscribed the South's biracial social and political order.
Introduction 1
Part 1: The Making of a Multiracial City, 1880-1901
1. Creating the Cigar City 21
2. An Activist Mosaic 38
3. Solidarity and Segregation 67
4. Race Conflicts and Class Currents 98
Part 2: Kaleidoscopic Connections, 1902-29
5. African American Women Confront Jim Crow 142
6. Anglo Women in the Era of Institution Building 170
7. Latin Women from Exiles to Immigrants 200
8. New Women 222
9. Recasting Activist Identities 248
Epilogue 271
Notes 277
Index 335
Illustrations follow page 136