Resident Strangers: Immigrant Laborers in New South Alabama

by Jennifer E Brooks and Jennifer E. Brooks

Immigrant laborers who came to the New South in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries found themselves poised uncomfortably between white employers and the Black working class, a liminal and often precarious position. Campaigns to recruit immigrants primarily aimed to suppress Black agency and mobility. If that failed, both planters and industrialists imagined that immigrants might replace Blacks entirely. Thus, white officials, citizens,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807176656
• ISBN13: 9780807176658
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"