Problem
Discuss the development of the South from the end of the Civil War (1865) through the early years of the 20th century. In your discussion, be sure to address and connect issues of economics, politics, and race relations. Do make a distinction between the Reconstruction and New South eras. Your essay essay should address such items as: Reconstruction in myth and in reality (historiography), Redemption, sharecropping, the region's characterization as a colonial economy, and the rise of racial segregation, disfranchisement, and lynching. What role did third party movements play in the advance toward political disfranchisement? How did generations factor into the rise of jane/jim crow segregation? How did popular music ("coon songs") affect race relations of this period? Do you think that culture (anthropological def.) played a part in the development of this "New" South? How so? Finally, why might historians refer to the "New South Era" as the "New South Error?" Did bell hooks's IWSCP influence you at all as you thought about the emergence of this "New South?" Do you think that the region could have followed a different path in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and if so, would the South and the nation be different today? Explain.
Discuss the development of the South from the end of the Civil War (1865) through the early years of the 20th century. In your discussion, be sure to address and connect issues of economics, politics, and race relations. Do make a distinction between the Reconstruction and New South eras. Your essay should address such items as: Reconstruction in myth and in reality (historiography), Redemption, sharecropping, the region's characterization as a colonial economy, and the rise of racial segregation, disfranchisement, and lynching. What role did third party movements play in the advance toward political disfranchisement? How did generations factor into the rise of jane/jim crow segregation? How did popular music ("coon songs") affect race relations of this period? Do you think that culture (anthropological def.) played a part in the development of this "New" South? "How so? Finally, why might historians refer to the "New South Era" as the "New South Error?" Did bell hooks's IWSCP influence you at all as you thought about the emergence of this "New South?" Do you think that the region could have followed a different path in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and if so, would the South and the nation be different today? Explain.
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