Remembering Jim Crow

African Americans Talk About Life in the Segregated South

Remembering Jim Crow
Raymond Gavins, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, William H Chafe, Robert Korstad
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Paperback
h215 x 139mm - 400pg
23 Sep 2021 UK
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9781620976821
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A timely paperback reissue of the stunning, prize-winning portrait of the Jim Crow South through unique first-person accountsPraised as "viscerally powerful" (Publishers Weekly), this remarkable work of oral history captures the searing experience of the Jim Crow years through first-person interviews carefully collected by researchers at Duke University' s Behind the Veil project. Newly relevant today as Americans reckon with the legacies of slavery and strive for racial equality, Remembering Jim Crow provides vivid, compelling accounts by men and women from all walks of life, who tell how their day-to-day lives were subjected to profound and unrelenting racial oppression. "A shivering dose of reality and inspiring stories of everyday resistance" (Library Journal), Remembering Jim Crow is a testament to how Black Southerners fought back against the system, raising children, building churches and schools, running businesses, and struggling for respect in a society that denied them the most basic rights. Collectively, these narratives illuminate individual and community survival and tell a powerful story of the American past that is crucial for us to remember as we grapple with Jim Crow' s legacies in the present.
Praise for Remembering Jim Crow: Winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award Winner of the Carey McWilliams Award"A landmark book. " -Publishers Weekly "Powerful. " -Booklist "A shivering dose of reality and inspiring stories of everyday resistance. " -Library Journal "A multimedia triumph. " -Kansas City Star
William H. Chafe is the Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of History emeritus at Duke University and is the author of numerous books. Raymond Gavins (1942-2016) was a professor of history at Duke University and the project director of "Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South," an oral history project undertaken by Duke' s Center for Documentary Studies and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. He was the author of The Perils and Prospects of Southern Black Leadership. Robert Korstad is the Kevin D. Gorter Professor of Public Policy and History at Duke University. He received his BA and PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests include twentieth-century U. S. history, labor history, African American history, and contemporary social policy, and he is the co-director of a major documentary research project at Duke' s Center for Documentary Studies, "Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South.
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ISBN-13: 9781620976821
Published: 23 Sep 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: The New Press
Publisher: The New Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 215mm
Width: 139mm
Pages: 400

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