The Problem South: Region, Empire, and the New Liberal State, 1880?1930

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303 index Abbeville, La., 92 Abbott, Lyman, 145–46, 166, 171, 175 abolitionists, negative image of South by, 18–19 “acclimatization” and tropics, 88 “accommodationist racism,” 192 Adams, Herbert Baxter, 204 Adler, Felix, 207 Advancing South, The (Mims), 216–17, 220 Africa, 82, 89–90, 156. See also South Africa agrarian myth, 110, 121, 130–31. See also rural living Agricultural Adjustment Act (1933), 134 agricultural colleges, 120, 122 agricultural conservation, 107 agricultural experiment stations, 108 agricultural Other, South as, 106 agricultural progress: importance of cotton to, 101–2; and mosquitoes, 92 agricultural reform and reformers: boll weevil as opportunity for, 119–20; as colonial project, 52; and diseased South, 116; and diversification of crops, 113, 119, 126, 128, 131; and guidance from Asian countries, 106–7, 246n34; South as laboratory for, 97, 113, 120, 127, 132–33; as tool of colonization , 108. See also boll weevils; Butterfield, Kenyon L.; cotton; farm demonstration program; Knapp, Seaman A.; Poe, Clarence Hamilton agriculture: federal intervention in, 113–14; tropical, 107, 108 Alabama: campaign against child labor in, 149–50; European settlement in, 82, 84; farm demonstration movement in, 125; public schools in, 161, 164; unequal distribution of resources to, 161 Alabama Child Labor Committee (aclc), 150 Alabama State Board of Health, 75 Alderman, Edwin A., 7, 152, 165 Alexander, W. W., 95; The Collapse of Cotton Tenancy, The (with Johnson and Embree), 143, 144–45 Algeria, 82 American Academy of Political and Social Science, 182, 184, 206 American Commonwealth, The (Bryce), 205 American Counterpoint (Woodward), 223n18 American democracy, “race problem” and, 205 American Economic Association, 182, 186 American Epoch, An (Odum), 218 American Federation of Labor, 149 304 • index American Historical Association, 182, 184 American Journal of Public Health, 76 American Journal of Sociology, 82, 187 American Journal of Tropical Diseases and Preventive Medicine, 92 American Journal of Tropical Medicine, 85 American Mercury, 144, 217 American Negro Academy (ana), 182, 183 American Sociological Society, 182, 186 American South. See South, the Anderson, Benedict, 226n31 Anglo-Saxons: Appalachian whites as pure, 252n3; and imperialism, 155; praise of, in New South, 138; in tropics, 88–89; white supremacy and regression of, 92. See also Appalachian whites; degeneration; southern whites; white supremacy Angoff, Charles, 218 Annual Conferences Held by the American Negro Academy, 182 anthropology, 45 antimiscegenation laws, 137. See also miscegenation Anti-Miscegenation League, 198 apartheid. See segregation Appalachian whites, 33, 137, 138, 159, 164, 252n3 Applegate, Celia, 226n31 Appletons’ Journal, 28 Aptheker, Herbert, 265n91 Archer, William, 53, 209, 210 Arena, 25, 47, 135, 140, 198 “Arisen South, The” (W. H. Page), 23 Arkansas, lynchings in, 218 Armstrong, Samuel Chapman, 52, 154–55, 163, 175, 209 Armstrong Association, 38 Arnold, David, 84 Ashby, Irene, 149–50 Asia: farming in, 123–24; as market for cotton, 105. See also China; India; Japan Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 182 Atkinson, Edward, 106 Atlanta, Ga., 188 Atlanta Journal, 127 Atlanta Journal-Record of Medicine, 77 Atlanta University, 183 Atlantic Monthly, 31, 35, 36, 37 Australia, 156 Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (J. W. Johnson), 199 “Autobiography of a Southerner since the Civil War” (W. H. Page), 36–37 Ayers, Edward, 5 backwardness: agricultural, 96, 132; of Appalachian whites, 252n3; economic, 133; image of, 6–7; mythology of, 3, 221n5; and paradox of progress and poverty, 12; political, 2; of poor southern whites, 140; scientific experts on, 9; slavery as cause of, 46–47; and sociocultural evolutionism, 51. See also degeneration; progress Bahamas, 53 Bailey, Liberty Hyde, 121 Baker, Ray Stannard, 178, 199, 200, 209; “Following the Color Line,” 189–90; “The Tragedy of the Mulatto,” 196 Barbados, 155 Bardin, James, 180 Barker, Lewellys F., 70–71, 74, 87 index • 305 Barney Boggs stories, 73–74 Basis of Ascendancy, The (Murphy), 213 Bassett, John Spencer: and founding of South Atlantic Quarterly, 34; on loss of “old Negro,” 190; on “race friction” as white man’s contempt for blacks, 191, 192; response of, to Stone’s paper, 186, 187; “Stirring Up the Fires of Race Antipathy,” 191 Bay, Mia, 192 Beale, Truxtun, 89 Beckert, Sven, 102 Bederman, Gail, 104 “benevolent assimilation,” 212–13 Berea Quarterly, 40 Bertram, James, 159–60 Bingham, Robert, 25 Birth of a Nation, The (1915 film), 99, 257n89 Black and White in South East Africa (Evans), 160 Black and White in the Southern States (Evans), 160 “black beast rapists,” 195–96, 198, 232n76 “black blood,” 195 black institutions...