Now in paperback, The Rural Face of White Supremacy presents a detailed study of the daily experiences of ordinary people in rural Hancock County, Georgia. Drawing on his own interviews with over two hundred black and white residents, Mark Schultz argues that the residents acted on the basis of personal rather than institutional relationships. As a result, Hancock County residents experienced more intimate face-to-face interactions, which made possible more black agency than their urban counterparts were allowed. While they were still firmly entrenched within an exploitive white supremacist culture, this relative freedom did create a space for a range of interracial relationships that included mixed housing, midwifery, church services, meals, and even common-law marriages.| Contents List of Graphs, Charts, and Maps Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: A Place in Time 1. "Friendship Was Better Than Money" 2. The Other Rural Workers: Landowning and Working for Cash 3. Beyond Segregation: Social Relations in Rural Hancock, Part 1 4. Beyond Segregation: Social Relations in Rural Hancock, Part 2 5. Race, Violence, and Power in a Personal Culture 6. Paternalism and Patronage: Public Power in a Personal Culture Epilogue: The Rise of Public Work Appendix A: Methods Appendix B: Interviews Notes
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Hancock County (Ga, ) Race relations, Hancock County (Ga, ) Rural conditions, Racism Georgia Hancock County History 20th century, African Americans Georgia Hancock County Social conditions 20th century, Whites Georgia Hancock County Social conditions 20th century, African Americans Georgia Hancock County Interviews, Whites Georgia Hancock County Interviews, Hancock County (Ga, ) Biography| A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2006. — CHOICE
|Mark Schultz is an associate professor of history at Lewis University in Romeoville, Illinois.