| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.1

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Book Review

Making a New South: Race, Leadership, and Community after the Civil War. Ed. by Paul A. Cimbala and Barton C. Shaw. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2007. xii, 315 pp. $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8130-3067-8.)

The eleven essays in this fine collection are a welcome contribution to the University Press of Florida's impressive series New Perspectives on the History of the South. Covering topics that range from late nineteenth-century North Carolina to 1970s Mississippi, the essays contribute to a variety of historiographical debates about the relationships among race, politics, labor, and southern society. But the book's primary importance is in the way that its diverse chapters demonstrate that the course of the twentieth-century South was not necessarily set right after the Civil War. Instead, the New South is "an era in which a continuous contest occurred across southern society between black southerners asserting their individual dignity and their collective civil rights and white southerners determined to thwart those efforts" (p. 4). The making of the New South, then, was a dynamic process in which both blacks and whites shaped the outcome.

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