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Maintaining Segregation - Children and Racial Instruction in the South, 1920-1955 (Hardcover)
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Maintaining Segregation - Children and Racial Instruction in the South, 1920-1955 (Hardcover)
Series: Making the Modern South
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In Maintaining Segregation, LeeAnn G. Reynolds explores how black
and white children in the early twentieth-century South learned
about segregation in their homes, schools, and churches. As public
lynchings and other displays of racial violence declined in the
1920s, a culture of silence developed around segregation, serving
to forestall, absorb, and deflect individual challenges to the
racial hierarchy. The cumulative effect of the racial instruction
southern children received, prior to highly publicized news such as
the Brown v. Board of Education decision and the Montgomery bus
boycott, perpetuated segregation by discouraging discussion or
critical examination. As the system of segregation evolved
throughout the early twentieth century, generations of southerners
came of age having little or no knowledge of life without
institutionalized segregation. Reynolds examines the motives and
approaches of white and black parents to racial instruction in the
home and how their methods reinforced the status quo. Whereas white
families sought to preserve the legal system of segregation and
their place within it, black families faced the more complicated
task of ensuring the safety of their children in a racist society
without sacrificing their sense of self-worth. Schools and churches
functioned as secondary sites for racial conditioning, and Reynolds
traces the ways in which these institutions alternately challenged
and encouraged the marginalization of black Americans both within
society and the historical narrative. In order for subsequent
generations to imagine and embrace the sort of racial equality
championed by the civil rights movement, they had to overcome
preconceived notions of race instilled since childhood. Ultimately,
Reynolds's work reveals that the social change that occurred due to
the civil rights movement can only be fully understood within the
context of the segregation imposed upon children by southern
institutions throughout much of the early twentieth century.
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