"The best collection available concerning current trends affecting the Southern working class."--Leon Fink, University of Illinois-Chicago

"The essays in this collection raise fundamental questions about development, globalization, and change in the American South and will appeal to a broad array of scholars concerned with the current waves of social and economic change sweeping the nation."--Louis M. Kyriakoudes, University of Southern Mississippi

Over the last forty years, the American South has become very diverse very quickly. New businesses and job opportunities in the...

"Covering a compelling local history, deeply imbricated with state and national events, To Render Invisible brings together dramatic stories of continuity and change, of gender and race, and of respectability and resistance in a brisk narrative lucidly informed by social theory."--David Roediger, author of The Wages of Whiteness

"Carefully develops an original argument drawing from several theoretical perspectives to make the claim that African Americans in Jacksonville were able to...

Covering a compelling local history, deeply imbricated with state and national events, To Render Invisiblebrings together dramatic stories of continuity and change, of gender and race, and of respectability and resistance in a brisk narrative lucidly informed by social theory. David Roediger, author ofThe Wages of Whiteness

Carefully develops an original argument drawing from several theoretical perspectives to make the claim that African Americans in Jacksonville were able to continue...