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Title: Race and Ethnicity in Nineteenth-Century Mobile, Alabama

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Publication Year: 2006

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Abstract: In each of the above-listed books, the authors have made contributions to the field of southern urban history. Harriet E. Amos offers a classic organizational history of antebellum Mobile from a top-down perspective. Michael V. R. Thomason edits a work that surveys the entire history of Mobile from precontact to the present.1 And Michael W. Fitzgerald provides a refreshing investigation of urban politics in Reconstruction-era Mobile. The roles of various racial and ethnic groups appear in all of their works, and they are the focus of this review.During the past twenty-five years, historians have continually noted the need for further study of the urban South. The cities in the South have not, however, received the scholarly attention they deserve. A perusal of the conference program for the Seventieth annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association (2004) revealed two panels on southern urban history. The conference program for the Second Biennial Urban History Conference (2004) contained three papers on New Orleans and two papers on Atlanta but no panels on southern urban history. Both conferences devoted considerable attention to race relations

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Authors: Strickland, Jeffrey

Periodical (Full): Journal of Urban History

Issue: 1

Volume: 33

Pages: 131-140

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other, Race and Ethnicity

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