Southern Discomfort: Women’s Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s-1920s (Women in American History)

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Vitally linked to the Caribbean and southern Europe in addition to to the Confederacy, the Cigar Town of Tampa, Florida, never are compatible comfortably into the biracial mold of the New South. In Southern Discomfort, respected historian Nancy A. Hewitt explores the interactions among distinct groups of ladies – native-born white, African American, Cuban and Italian immigrant girls – that shaped girls’s activism on this vibrant, multiethnic Town.
Southern Discomfort emphasizes the method in which girls forged and reformulated their activist identities from Reconstruction in the course of 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. This masterful volume also recasts our working out of southern history by demonstrating how Tampa’s triracial networks alternately challenged and reinscribed the South’s biracial social and political order.

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