Teri A. McMurtry-Chubb

Race Unequals

Overseer Contracts, White Masculinities, and the Formation of Managerial Identity in the Plantation Economy

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Produktbeschreibung

This study examines white male identity in the plantation economy of the antebellum American South. By analyzing employment contracts between plantation owners and their overseers, and the web of public and private law that surrounded them, this book challenges notions of a monolithic white male identity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 148
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 377g
• ISBN-13: 9781498599061
• ISBN-10: 1498599060
• Artikelnr.: 61216782

Autorenporträt

Teri A. McMurtry-Chubb is professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The World The Planters Made
Chapter 1: The Overseer, His Contracts, and His Contractual Relationships
Chapter 2: Profitable Planters, Industrious Overseers, Maintaining the
Status Quo
Chapter 3: "Pushing" Torture, Managing Violence, and Planter Regulation of
Overseer Control
Chapter 4: White Masculinities, Private Law, and the Battle for Social
Control
Chapter 5: Immoral Men, Immoral Ends, Deference as Social Death
Epilogue: The "Lost Cause" and the Legacy of Plantation Management
Bibliography
About the Author