From The Man With the Hoe to Tobacco Road: Class, Poverty and Religion and the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union
Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: This thesis explores the intersections of poverty, class and religion as they were debated and depicted within the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union (STFU). The STFU was a Christian and socialist inflected union of agricultural laborers that formed in response to the Agricultural Adjustment Act in 1934. I contextualize these depictions within the larger context of debates about poverty and religion in Depression Era literature and academic scholarship, particularly as they relate to the figure of the Southern sharecropper. Particular attention is paid to the figure of minister and Socialist Party member Howard Kester, and his role as an intermediary between the union and middle class audiences.
DOI: 10.17615/psa0-m534
Author: Harvey, Shannon Lorraine
Institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: No poverty
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2964764959