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The Confederate Republic: A Revolution Against Politics (review)

The Confederate Republic: A Revolution Against Politics (review) The Confederate Republic: A Revolution Against Politics (review) Lacy K. Ford Jr. Southern Cultures, Volume 2, Number 3/4, 1996, pp. 397-400 (Review) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1996.0029 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/424290/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 17:05 GMT from JHU Libraries Reviews397 power, not idealism; that compromise was part and parcel of the political game that blacks were learning to play; and that change was more likely to come incrementally than in a giant leap to freedom. More generally, there might have been more emphasis on the consequences of the New Deal —which is barely mentioned — and of World War Two — which is discussed briefly. Not only did these twin phenomena set in motion the economic changes that pro- vided the context for a successful assault on Jim Crow and disenfranchisement throughout the South, they also squeezed out a trickle of tentative white liberalism, even in Mississippi, which Dittmer rather underestimates. This is not to suggest that the relative and frequently ambiguous racial liberalism of Frank Smith, P. D. East, Hazel Brannon Smith, Florence Mars, Turner Catledge, or even Will Campbell in his sojourn at Ole Miss ever http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

The Confederate Republic: A Revolution Against Politics (review)

Ford, Lacy K.
Southern Cultures , Volume 2 (3) – Jan 4, 2012
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The Confederate Republic: A Revolution Against Politics (review) Lacy K. Ford Jr. Southern Cultures, Volume 2, Number 3/4, 1996, pp. 397-400 (Review) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1996.0029 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/424290/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 17:05 GMT from JHU Libraries Reviews397 power, not idealism; that compromise was part and parcel of the political game that blacks were learning to play; and that change was more likely to come incrementally than in a giant leap to freedom. More generally, there might have been more emphasis on the consequences of the New Deal —which is barely mentioned — and of World War Two — which is discussed briefly. Not only did these twin phenomena set in motion the economic changes that pro- vided the context for a successful assault on Jim Crow and disenfranchisement throughout the South, they also squeezed out a trickle of tentative white liberalism, even in Mississippi, which Dittmer rather underestimates. This is not to suggest that the relative and frequently ambiguous racial liberalism of Frank Smith, P. D. East, Hazel Brannon Smith, Florence Mars, Turner Catledge, or even Will Campbell in his sojourn at Ole Miss ever

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Published: Jan 4, 2012

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