| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 331 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Contents |
Intimate spaces : performance and the making of Jim Crow -- Benevolence, violence, and militancy : competing narratives of race and aggression -- Jim Crow audiences : Southerners, the nation, and the centralization of racial surveillance -- Breaching the peace : arrests and the regulation of racial space -- Intimacy, Black criminality, and whiteness : the evolving public narratives of race -- Epilogue : living post Jim Crow |
| Summary |
The South's system of Jim Crow racial oppression is usually understood in terms of legal segregation that mandated the separation of white and black Americans. Yet, as this work shows, it was also a high-stakes drama that played out in the routines of everyday life, where blacks and whites regularly interacted on sidewalks and buses and in businesses and homes. Every day, individuals made, unmade, and remade Jim Crow in how they played their racial roles-how they moved, talked, even gestured. The highly visible but often subtle nature of these interactions constituted the Jim Crow routine |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed July 30, 2021) |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Mississippi -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
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Racism -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
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African Americans -- Social life and customs
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Manners and customs
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Race relations
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Racism
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| SUBJECT |
Mississippi -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
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Mississippi -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
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| Subject |
Mississippi
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781469623115 |
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1469623110 |
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9781469620947 |
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1469620944 |
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