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The South - Jim Crow and Its Afterlives (Hardcover)
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The South - Jim Crow and Its Afterlives (Hardcover)
Series: Jacobin
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Loot Price R464
Discovery Miles 4 640
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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. - 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. 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 unravels the
personal and political dimensions of the Jim Crow order, revealing
the sources and objectives of this unstable regime, its
contradictions and precarity, and the social order that would
replace it. 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. With a foreword from Barbara Fields, co-author of the
acclaimed Racecraft.
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