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Gin, Jesus, & Jim Crow : prohibition and the transformation of racial and religious politics in the South
- Title
- Gin, Jesus, & Jim Crow : prohibition and the transformation of racial and religious politics in the South / Brendan J.J. Payne.
- Author
- Payne, Brendan J. J.
- Publication
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2022]
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- Description
- xiii, 273 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "In Gin, Jesus, and Jim Crow, Brendan J. J. Payne reveals how prohibition helped realign the racial and religious order in the South by linking restrictions on alcohol with political preaching and the disfranchisement of Black voters. While both sides invoked Christianity, prohibitionists redefined churches' doctrines, practices, and political engagement. White prohibitionists initially courted Black voters in the 1880s but soon dismissed them as hopelessly wet and sought to disfranchise them, stoking fears of drunken Black men defiling white women in their efforts to reframe alcohol restriction as a means of racial control. Later, as the alcohol industry grew desperate, it turned to Black voters, many of whom joined the brewers to preserve their voting rights and maintain personal liberties. Tracking southern debates about alcohol from the 1880s through the 1930s, Payne shows that prohibition only retreated from the region once the racial and religious order it helped enshrine had been secured."--
- Series Statement
- Making the modern South
- Alternative Title
- Gin, Jesus, and Jim Crow
- Subjects
- Temperance and religion
- Minorities > Suffrage
- African Americans > Suffrage
- African Americans > Segregation
- Prohibition
- History
- Southern States
- Tempérance > États-Unis (Sud) > Aspect religieux > Histoire
- Noirs américains > Suffrage > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire
- Noirs américains > Ségrégation > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire
- Temperance and religion > Southern States > History
- Minorities > Suffrage > Southern States > History
- African Americans > Suffrage > Southern States > History
- African Americans > Segregation > Southern States > History
- Prohibition > Religious aspects > Christianity
- Prohibition > Southern States > History
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-262) and index.
- Contents
- Bourbon Rule: The South before Prohibition -- Old-Time Religion: Christian Tradition against Prohibition -- "Dark and Peculiar": Race, Gender, and Prohibition in the 1880s South -- Gin Crow: Prohibition in the Jim Crow South -- Gin Crow Begins: White Drys and Jim Crow -- "Fidelity to That Liberty": Defeat and Success for Gin Crow -- Rebels against Rum and Romanism -- Lily-White Repeal: White Women and the Decline of Gin Crow.
- Call Number
- Sc E 23-179
- ISBN
- 9780807171486
- 0807171484
- 9780807177709 (canceled/invalid)
- 9780807177693 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2021045390
- OCLC
- 1281650668
- Author
- Payne, Brendan J. J., author.
- Title
- Gin, Jesus, & Jim Crow : prohibition and the transformation of racial and religious politics in the South / Brendan J.J. Payne.
- Publisher
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2022]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Making the modern South
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-262) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 23-179