Caste and Class: The Black Experience in Arkansas, 1880-1920

Author/Contributor(s):	Gordon, Fon Louise
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Date:	12/01/2007
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

In this history of African American society from the end of Reconstruction to the end of WW I, Gordon focuses on dissent within Arkansas's black community. In particular, Gordon studies friction between elites and the agricultural and laboring classes over ideological and procedural aspects of their response to the caste strictures of Jim Crow.