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OverviewA social scientist and public intellectual, Arthur Raper (1899-1979) was a white southerner who advocated unpopular liberal solutions to combat the shortcoming of southern race relations. Originally published in 1936, Preface to Peasantry confirmed Raper's inclusion in the Chapel Hill southern Regionalist movement of the 1930s and '40s and his evocation of New Deal federal planning in the creation of social policy. The result of a seven-year investigation into social problems stemming from African American emigration from the rural south and the resulting turnover in farm tenancy, Raper's work focuses on the agricultural depression of Greene County, Georgia, bereft of departing black sharecroppers, and the contrasting economic stability of Macon County, Georgia, were the population had gone without significant upheaval. Adroitly juxtaposing themes of history and sociology, Preface to Peasantry is a text both descriptive of a broad phenomenon and prescriptive of policymaking to address the destruction of rural American life. The edition features a new introduction from Louis Mazzari to contextualize Raper's life and work and document the reception of Preface to Peasantry. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Arthur F. Raper , Louis MazzariPublisher: University of South Carolina Press Imprint: University of South Carolina Press Edition: Revised ed. Dimensions: Width: 12.70cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 17.80cm Weight: 0.754kg ISBN: 9781570036033ISBN 10: 1570036039 Pages: 448 Publication Date: 31 July 2005 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsRaper writes as the research and field secretary of the commission on interracial cooperation....[H]is study ranks among the most fundamental contributions to the sociology of the rural South. -- American Sociological Review [Preface to Peasantry] is part of a growing literature reflecting the development of a social movement, analogous to the abolitionist movement before the Civil War, which has the small farm as its goal.... [I]t aims at the destruction of the plantation, the physical basis of slavery, and of cropper tenancy itself. -- American Journal of Sociology Author Information(Deceased.) Also author of The Tragedy of Lynching (1933), Sharecroppers All (1941), Tenants of the Almighty (1943). Mazzari: (Manchester, NH) Instructor of history, Univ of New Hampshire at Manchester. Author of the forthcoming Arthur Raper: A Modern Realist in the New Deal South. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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