| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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Book Review

The Social Origins of the Urban South: Race, Gender, and Migration in Nashville and Middle Tennessee, 1890–1930. By Louis M. Kyriakoudes. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. xx, 226 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8078-2811-4. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5484-0.)
It has become an axiom for the study of southern urbanization that a regional perspective is necessary for understanding both the process and the nature of urban growth. This is so for at least two reasons. First, between the end of the Civil War and the civil rights movement, the overwhelming majority of migrants to the urban South arrived from the surrounding countryside. Second, given the distinctive character of southern history, particularly its Afro-European population and culture and its experiences during and after the Civil War, the urban South, by virtue of its demographics, is likely to reflect these regional distinctions.	1
Much of this research has demonstrated that southern cities have exhibited a regional culture with respect to religion, music, political beliefs, aesthetic ideals, and some racial customs. Less examined is the process of migration itself: who migrated and why, and what impact this migration had on both city and country. Such is the task set by this well-researched and clearly written study of migration patterns to Nashville from the middle Tennessee hinterland.	. . .

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