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We Ain't What We Was - Civil Rights in the New South (Paperback, New)
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When officials of the U.S. Department of Justice came in 1961 to
Panola County in the Mississippi delta, they found a closed society
in which race relations had not altered significantly since
Reconstruction. Much has changed, however, in Mississippi in the
past three decades, as Frederick Wirt demonstrates in "We Ain't
What We Was," a remarkable look inside the New South. In this
follow-up to his highly praised 1970 study of Panola County, The
Politics of Southern Equality, Wirt shows how the implementation of
civil rights law over the past quarter-century has altered racial
reality that in turn altered white perceptions, and thus behavior
and attitudes in a section of the country where segregation and
prejudice had been most thoroughly entrenched. Wirt uses multiple
indicators-interviews with leaders, attitude tests of children,
content analysis of newspapers, school records, and voting and job
data-to record what has changed in the Deep South as a result of
the 60s revolution in civil rights. Although racism continues to
exist in Panola, Wirt maintains that the current generation of
southerners is sharply distinguished from its predecessors, and he
effectively documents the transformations in individuals and
institutions. In a time of increasing popular challenges to the use
of law in support of civil liberties, or the place of the federal
government to effect necessary social change, this book testifies
to the great changes, both public and personal, that were brought
about by the strong implementation of civil rights law over thirty
years ago. "We Ain't What We Was" shows that adaptation to change
was not overnight, not final, but gradual and always persistent.
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