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Author:

Reed, Adolph L., 1947- author.

Title:

The South : Jim Crow and its afterlives / Adolph Reed, Jr. ; with a foreword by Barbara J. Fields.

Publisher:

Verso Books,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

xiv, 145 pages ; 21 cm

Subject:

African Americans--Southern States--History--20th century.
African Americans--History--History--20th century.
African Americans--History--History--20th century.
African Americans--Southern States--Social conditions--20th century.
Southern States--History--History--20th century.
Southern States--Social conditions--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

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.

Summary:

"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.

ISBN:

1839766263
9781839766268

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1249630655

LCCN:

2021048488

Locations:

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

GAAX314 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Peosta (Peosta)