The social origins of the urban South : race, gender, and migration in Nashville and Middle Tennessee, 1890-1930
"In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, thousands of black and white southerners left farms and rural towns to try their fate in the region's cities. This transition brought about significant economic, social, and cultural changes in both urban centers and the countryside. F...
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2003.
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Table of Contents:
- The Grand Ole Opry and the urban South
- City and hinterland
- The countryside
- Turning to urban markets
- Leaving the countryside
- Going to Nashville
- Men's work
- Women's work
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Middle Tennessee and Nashville net migration estimates..