The South : Jim Crow and its afterlives
(2022)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
305.896073/REED,A
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
London ; New York : Verso Books, [2022]
DESCRIPTION
xiv, 145 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781839766268, 1839766263 :, 1839766263, 9781839766268
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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"--