Southern Discomfort(English, Hardcover, Hewitt Nancy A)

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Southern Discomfort(English, Hardcover, Hewitt Nancy A) is written by Hewitt Nancy A and published by University of Illinois Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0252026829 (ISBN 10) and 9780252026829 (ISBN 13).

Linked to the Caribbean and southern Europe as well as to the Confederacy, the Cigar City of Tampa, Florida, never fit comfortably into the biracial mold of the New South. Nancy A. Hewitt explores the interactions among distinct groups of women--native-born white, African American, Cuban and Italian immigrant women--that shaped women's activism in the vibrant, multiethnic city. Hewitt emphasizes the process by which women forged and reformulated their activist identities from Reconstruction through the U.S. declaration of war against Spain in April 1898, the industrywide cigar strike of 1901, and the emergence of progressive reform and labor militancy. She also recasts our understanding of southern history by demonstrating how Tampa's triracial networks alternately challenged and re-inscribed the South's biracial social and political order.