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List of Illustrations vii Preface ix INTRODUCTION 1
CHAPTER 1: Cotton, the "Negro Question," and Industrial Education in the New South 20
Cotton and Coercion 23
Growing Cotton in the Old South and the New 32
The "Negro Question" and the New South 38
Hampton Institute: From Colonial Education to Industrial Education 40
Tuskegee Institute: An Ambivalent Challenge to the New South 45
Booker T. Washington's Pan-Africanism and the Turn to Empire 61
CHAPTER 2: Sozialpolitik and the New South in Germany 66
German Social Thought and the American Civil War 67
Emancipation and Free Labor in Germany 70
Germany's New South: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Freedom of Free Labor 73
German Settlers and Polish Migrants: Internal Colonization and the Struggle over Labor, Sexuality, and Race 80
Social Democracy versus Internal Colonization and State Socialism 95
Race and the "Dark Urge for Personal Freedom": Max Weber and W.E.B. Du Bois 100
CHAPTER 3: Alabama in Africa: Tuskegee and the Colonial Decivilizing Mission in Togo 112
Togo between Atlantic Slavery and German Colonial Rule 113
Mission Schools, White-Collar Work, and Political Resistance 123
Ewe Education and German Colonial Rule 128
Cotton, Conquest, and the Southern Turn of Colonial Rule 130
From Colonial Africans to New South "Negroes" 139
Tuskegee Educators and African Households 144
The Transformation of Togolese Cotton 148
Undoing the Exodus: The Colonial Decivilizing Mission at the Notse? Cotton School 153
Missionary Education and Industrial Education in Togo 162
German Internal Colonization and American Sharecropping in Togo 166
CHAPTER 4: From a German Alabama in Africa to a Segregationist International: The League of Nations and the Global South 173
E. D. Morel, Congo Reform, and the German-Tuskegee Colonial Model 176
Booker T. Washington, Congo Reform, and Industrial Education in Africa 179
The Negerfrage in Germany: Colonial Policy, Colonial Social Science, and Colonial Scandals 187
Social Democracy versus the Civilizing Mission 197
The Versailles Treaty and the Segregationist International 198
CHAPTER 5: From Industrial Education for the New South to a Sociology of the Global South 205
Max Weber, Booker T. Washington, and W.E.B. Du Bois 207
From "Teaching the Negro to Work" to the "Protestant Ethic" 212
Sociology for the Old South and the New 217
Robert E. Park, from Germany to Africa to Tuskegee and Back Again 219
From the Global South to the Chicago School of Sociology 222
The Great Migration and the Transformation of Sociology 227
CONCLUSION: Prussian Paths of Capitalist Development: The Tuskegee Expedition to Togo between Transnational and Comparative History 237
Notes 251
Bibliography 347
Index 391
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reviewed Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South on August 07, 2019 Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South
As more people learn the important history of Jim Crow in the US between Reconstruction and the Great Depression, two difficult to dislodge myths have been embedded in these newly popular histories - that this era's methods of racial segregation and violence were age old inherited prejudices, and that they were solely American in character. The reality is that the modes of racism which defined this half century, whatever their lineage from previous forms of American racism, were distinct products of modernization just as much as electrification and radio were, a critical part in the forging of the New South. The Supreme Court struck down the Civil Rights Act of 1875 just a year before European empires met to carve up Africa at the Berlin Conference, inaugurating an era of transoceanic exchange in new social technologies of racial control, as literacy tests were exported from Mississippi to Australia and South Africa, primarily white countries collectively developed passport systems, and enthusiastically iterated on each other's innovations in urban segregation. Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South by Andrew Zimmerman provides an excellent history of this internationalization of systems of racial control at the turn of the twentieth century by examining Germany's attempt to import the agricultural economy of the Jim Crow South to Togo, its roots in German labor policy at home, and the results of this venture for American and European understandings of race in the newly emerging field of sociology. The fact that this happened with the cooperation of Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute makes the international politics of race and labor relations during this period in world history all the more complex and informative. Tracing the history of the unusual alliance between the Kaiser and America's best known black activist at the time over three continents, this book may be the best text to break down the understanding of racism in post Reconstruction America as nothing more than the distinctly national inheritance of an original sin. Drawing the Global Colour Line is the only other book which has made me this confident about the kind of work I want to do and as excited for the untapped potential of history in this era.
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