"Lookin' for better all the time" : rural migration and urbanization in the South, 1900-1950 / Louis M. Kyriakoudes --

"A crude and raw past" : work, folklife, and anti-agrarianism in twentieth-century African American autobiography / Ted Ownby --

"Of the least and the most" : the African American rural church / Lois E. Myers, Rebecca Sharpless --

Shifting boundaries : race relations in the rural Jim Crow South / Melissa Walker --

African American rural culture, 1900-1950 / Valerie Grim --

Benign public policies, malignant consequences, and the demise of African American agriculture / William P. Browne --

"I have been through fire" : black agricultural extension agents and the politics of negotiation / Jeannie Whayne --

Exit, voice, and loyalty : African American strategies for day-to-day existence/resistance in the early-twentieth-century rural South / Peter Coclanis, Bryant Simon.