Jim Crow Wisdom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jim Crow Wisdom write by Jonathan Scott Holloway. This book was released on 2013. Jim Crow Wisdom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory and Identity in Black America since 1940
Jim Crow Wisdom
Jim Crow Wisdom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jim Crow Wisdom write by Jonathan Scott Holloway. This book was released on 2013-10-15. Jim Crow Wisdom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How do we balance the desire for tales of exceptional accomplishment with the need for painful doses of reality? How hard do we work to remember our past or to forget it? These are some of the questions that Jonathan Scott Holloway addresses in this exploration of race memory from the dawn of the modern civil rights era to the present. Relying on social science, documentary film, dance, popular literature, museums, memoir, and the tourism trade, Holloway explores the stories black Americans have told about their past and why these stories are vital to understanding a modern black identity. In the process, Holloway asks much larger questions about the value of history and facts when memories do violence to both. Making discoveries about his own past while researching this book, Holloway weaves first-person and family memories into the traditional third-person historian's perspective. The result is a highly readable, rich, and deeply personal narrative that will be familiar to some, shocking to others, and thought-provoking to everyone.
Ghosts of Jim Crow
Ghosts of Jim Crow - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ghosts of Jim Crow write by F. Michael Higginbotham. This book was released on 2013. Ghosts of Jim Crow available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Discusses the political, economic, educational, and social reasons the United States is not a "post-racial" society and argues that legal reform can successfully create a "post-racial" America.
The Jim Crow Routine
The Jim Crow Routine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Jim Crow Routine write by Stephen A. Berrey. This book was released on 2015-04-27. The Jim Crow Routine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 Stephen A. Berrey 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. In this study of Mississippi race relations in the final decades of the Jim Crow era, Berrey argues that daily interactions between blacks and whites are central to understanding segregation and the racial system that followed it. Berrey shows how civil rights activism, African Americans' refusal to follow the Jim Crow script, and national perceptions of southern race relations led Mississippi segregationists to change tactics. No longer able to rely on the earlier routines, whites turned instead to less visible but equally insidious practices of violence, surveillance, and policing, rooted in a racially coded language of law and order. Reflecting broader national transformations, these practices laid the groundwork for a new era marked by black criminalization, mass incarceration, and a growing police presence in everyday life.
The New Jim Crow
The New Jim Crow - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The New Jim Crow write by Michelle Alexander. This book was released on 2020-01-07. The New Jim Crow available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Named one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly‚ Slate‚ Chronicle of Higher Education‚ Literary Hub, Book Riot‚ and Zora A tenth-anniversary edition of the iconic bestseller—"one of the most influential books of the past 20 years," according to the Chronicle of Higher Education—with a new preface by the author "It is in no small part thanks to Alexander's account that civil rights organizations such as Black Lives Matter have focused so much of their energy on the criminal justice system." —Adam Shatz, London Review of Books Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of the Marshall Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund; it has been the winner of numerous prizes, including the prestigious NAACP Image Award; and it has spent nearly 250 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Most important of all, it has spawned a whole generation of criminal justice reform activists and organizations motivated by Michelle Alexander's unforgettable argument that "we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it." As the Birmingham News proclaimed, it is "undoubtedly the most important book published in this century about the U.S." Now, ten years after it was first published, The New Press is proud to issue a tenth-anniversary edition with a new preface by Michelle Alexander that discusses the impact the book has had and the state of the criminal justice reform movement today.
