Background
Raper grew up in Davidson County, North Carolina and attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Sharecroppers all
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Here the term "sharecropper" has been expanded to include many nonfarm workers. For the real meaning of the term one should look to such matters as low wages, insecurity, and lack of opportunity for self-direction and responsible participation in community affairs. The national pattern of exploitation finds its most exaggerated expression in the South with differentials everywhere threatening to defeat the struggling democratic effort. Originally published in 1941. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
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Preface to Peasantry: A Tale of Two Black Belt Counties (Southern Classics)
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A social scientist and public intellectual, Arthur Raper (1899-1979) advocated unpopular solutions to combat the shortcomings of race relations and economic stagnation in the South. Originally published in 1936, Preface to Peasantry confirmed Raper's place in the Chapel Hill Southern Regionalist movement of the 1930s and 1940s and elaborated his belief that New Deal federal planning could create progressive social policies. Adroitly juxtaposing themes of history and sociology, Preface to Peasantry is a text both descriptive of a broad phenomenon and prescriptive of policymaking to address the destruction of rural American life. This edition features a new introduction from Louis Mazzari to contextualize Raper's life and writings.
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Arthur Franklin
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In 1925, he started a Doctor of Philosophy at Chapel Hill, under the direction of Howard West. Odum, and completed it in 1931.
Career
He received an Master of Arts in Sociology from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He is best known for his research on lynching, sharecropping, and rural development. In 1926, he worked for the Commission on Interracial Cooperation with Will West. Alexander in Atlanta, Georgia.
He later taught at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia.
In 1939, he resigned after a furor over taking his students to visit the Tuskegee Institute. He studied and wrote about sharecropping in Macon County and Greene County.
He exposed sharecropping as exploitative. His papers are in the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Library.
Four of his books were reviewed by the New York Times (the reviews can be found in their archives).
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Preface to Peasantry: A Tale of Two Black Belt Counties (Southern Classics)
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Sharecroppers all
(Here the term "sharecropper" has been expanded to include...)
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Preface to Peasantry: A Tale of Two Black Belt Counties (Southern Classics)
