The South : Jim Crow and its afterlives / Adolph L. Reed Jr. ; with a foreword by Barbara J. Fields.
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- Jim Crow and its afterlives
- African Americans -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Segregation -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Blending personal memoir with historical accounts, this searing history of the Jim Crow South captures the realities of those who experienced it--and shines a light on its enduring legacy.
The last generation of Americans with a living memory of Jim Crow will soon disappear. They leave behind a collective memory of segregation shaped increasingly by its horrors and heroic defeat but not a nuanced understanding of everyday life in Jim Crow America. In The South , Adolph L. Reed Jr.--hailed by Cornel West as "the greatest democratic theorist of his generation"--takes up the urgent task of recounting the granular realities of life in the last decades of the Jim Crow South.
Reed illuminates the multifaceted structures of the segregationist order. Through his personal history and political acumen, we see America's apartheid system from the ground up, not just its legal framework or systems of power, but the way these systems structured the day-to-day interactions, lives, and ambitions of ordinary working people.
The South is more than a memoir or a history. Filled with analysis and fascinating firsthand accounts of the operation of the system that codified and enshrined racial inequality, this book is required reading for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of America's second peculiar institution the future created in its wake.
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword / by Barbara J. Fields -- Introduction -- Quotidian life in the 1950s and 1960s -- The order in flux and being in flux within the order -- "Race" and the new order taking shape within the old -- The new order and the obsolescence of "passing" -- Echoes, scar tissue, and historicity.
"Adolph L. Reed Jr.-- New Orleanian, political scientist, and, according to Cornel West, "the greatest democratic theorist of his generation"-- takes up the urgent task of recounting the granular realities of life in the last decades of the Jim Crow South"-- Provided by publisher.