Disturbing Development in the Jim Crow South

by Mona Domosh

Disturbing Development in the Jim Crow South documents how Black employees of the cooperative extension service of the USDA practiced rural improvement in ways that sustained southern Black farmers' lives and livelihoods in the early decades of the twentieth century, resisting the white supremacy that characterized the Jim Crow South.

Mona Domosh details the various mechanisms--the transformation of home demonstration projects, the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820363421
• ISBN13: 9780820363424
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"