Women, Work and
Family in the Antebellum Mountain South
(Cambridge University Press, 2008).
The African-American Family in
Slavery and Emancipation (Cambridge University
Press, 2003)
Slavery in the American
Mountain South (Cambridge University Press, 2003).
Crises and Resistance in
the 21st Century World-System (Praeger Press, 2003).
New Theoretical Directions for
the 21st Century World-System (Praeger Press, 2003)
Women, Work and
Family in the Antebellum Mountain South
(Cambridge University Press, 2008).
This is the first study of 19th-century Appalachian women. Wilma A. Dunaway moves beyond the black-white dichotomy and the preoccupation with affluent females that handicap antebellum women’s histories. By comparing white, American Indian, free black, and enslaved females, she argues that the nature of a woman’s work was determined by her race, ethnicity, and/or class positions. Concomitantly, the degree to which laws shielded her family from disruption depended upon her race, her class, and the degree to which she adhered to patriarchal conventions about work and cross-racial liaisons.
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The African-American Family in
Slavery and Emancipation
(Cambridge University Press, 2003)
Wilma Dunaway contends that studies of the U.S. slave family are flawed by the neglect of small plantations and export zones and the exaggeration of slave agency. Using data on population trends and slave narratives, Dunaway identifies several profit-maximizing strategies that owners implemented to disrupt and endanger African-American families. These effective strategies include forced labor migrations, structural interference in marriages and childcare, sexual exploitation of women, shortfalls in provision of basic survival needs, and ecological risks. This book is unique in its examination of new threats to family persistence that emerged during the Civil War and Reconstruction.
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Slavery in the American
Mountain South (Cambridge University Press, 2003).
Wilma Dunaway breaks new ground by focusing on slave experiences on small plantations in the Upper South. She argues that the region was not buffered from the political, economic, and social impacts of enslavement simply because it was characterized by low black population density and small slaveholdings. Dunaway pinpoints several indicators that distinguished Mountain South enslavement from the Lower South, by drawing on a massive statistical data base derived from antebellum census manuscripts and county tax records of 215 counties in nine states, slaveholder manuscripts, and regional slave narratives.
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The First American Frontier: Transition to Capitalism in Southern
Appalachia, 1700-1860 (University of North Carolina Press,
1996).
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Frontier: Transition to Capitalism in Southern Appalachia, 1700-1860,
Second Edition. New York: Net Library, 2000, Digitized version available online
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Crises and Resistance in
the 21st Century World-System (Praeger Press, 2003).
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As one-half of the 2003 edition of Immanuel Wallerstein's Political Economy of the World System series, this collection offers cutting-edge theoretical directions to explain the structural crises of the 21st century world system. Contributors argue that the capitalist world system has reached a critical bifurcation point, a short period which will be characterized by a sudden shift in the long-term structural forces that have created and sustained the world as we know it. Writers challenge conventional thinking about the most significant structural crises that face the 21st century world system, including terrorism, debt, the growth of megacities as global actors, the emergence of a powerful transnational capitalist class, and the world ecological crisis.
New Theoretical Directions for
the 21st Century World-System (Praeger Press, 2003)
View the Table of Contents Order this book online.
As one-half of the 2003 edition of Immanuel Wallerstein's Political Economy of the World System series, this collection offers cutting-edge theoretical directions to explain the structural crises of the 21st century world system. Contributors argue that the capitalist world system has reached a critical bifurcation point, a short period which will be characterized by a sudden shift in the long-term structural forces that have created and sustained the world as we know it. Writers challenge conventional thinking about the most significant structural crises that face the 21st century world system, including terrorism, debt, the growth of megacities as global actors, the emergence of a powerful transnational capitalist class, and the world ecological crisis.