| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

African American Life in the Rural South, 1900–1950. Ed. by R. Douglas Hurt. (Co-lumbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003. viii, 227 pp. $32.50, ISBN 0-8262-1471-1.)

Historians of African Americans' experiences in the Jim Crow South are familiar with stories of exploitation and violence depicting the horrors of the system, and more recently a large body of literature has developed that examines black southerners' responses to this oppression. This collection of essays explores many of the themes that have emerged in studies of the rural South and African Americans in the last two decades. The extent of black mobility and migration, the role of the church and other aspects of rural black culture, the impact of federal agricultural policies and agencies, and strategies of resistance are some of the topics the authors address. They aim to move past the usual discussions of "sharecropping, cotton, and poverty" to examine the rich texture of life in the rural South, with an emphasis on the ways black people struggled against powerful obstacles to "create order, gain dignity, and win freedom" (pp. 5, 9).

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