Kristen M. Lavelle

Whitewashing the South

White Memories of Segregation and Civil Rights

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Whitewashing the South is a powerful exploration of how ordinary white southerners recall living through extraordinary racial times-Jim Crow, civil rights, and post-civil rights. Drawing on interviews with the oldest living generation of white southerners, the book uncovers uncomfortable racial realities of the past and present.

Produktdetails

• Perspectives on a Multiracial America
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 371g
• ISBN-13: 9781442239258
• ISBN-10: 1442239255
• Artikelnr.: 40924716

Autorenporträt

By Kristen M. Lavelle

Inhaltsangabe

1: "Our Generation Had Nothing to Do with Discrimination" 2: "Only Love
under Our Roof": Jim Crow at Home 3: "Just the Way It Was": Jim Crow in
Public 4: Distancing and Rejection: The Civil Rights Movement at Arm's
Length 5: White Victims: Trials and Tribulations of School Desegregation 6:
Reflecting on a Lifetime: Views of the Post-Civil Rights Era 7: Memory and
White Moral Identity Appendix Researching Elder White Southerners
Bibliography Index About the Author