The Southern Fault Line: How Race, Class, and Region Shaped One Family's History

by Bryan Jones

A highly original reinterpretation of how race and class shaped the entirety of Southern history through the experience of four interconnected family lines. The Southern Fault Line explores the under-appreciated division in the South between the oligarchic rule of plantation owners and industrialists on the one hand, and the more democratic mindset of the mountain-dwelling small farmers on the other. These two mindsets were in continual tension from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197770428
• ISBN13: 9780197770429
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 448 Pages