Black, White, and Southern: Race Relations and Southern Culture, 1940 to the Present - Softcover

Goldfield, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807116823 ISBN 13: 9780807116821

Publisher: LSU Press, 1991

Synopsis

In "Black, White, and Southern," David R. Goldfield shows how the struggles of black southerners to lift the barriers that had historically separated them from their white counterparts not only brought about the demise of white supremacy but did so without destroying the South's unique culture. Indeed, it is Goldfield's contention that the civil rights crusade has strengthened the South's cultural heritage, making it possible for black southeners to embrace their region unfettered by fear and frustration and for whites to leave behind decades of guilt and condemnation.
In support of his analysis Goldfield presents a sweeping examination of the evolution of southern race relations over the past fifty years. He provides moving accounts of the major moments of the civil rights era, and he looks at more recent efforts by blacks to achieve economic and class parity.
This history of the crusade for black equality is in the end they story of the South itself and of the powerful forces of redemption that Goldfield attests are still working to shape the future of the region.

About this title

About the Author:

David R. Goldfield is Robert Lee Bailey Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is the author of Cotton Fields and Skyscrapers: Southern City and Region, 1607--1980, and other books.

From Library Journal:

Using exposition more than argument, historian Goldfield surveys the transformation of the South from a world of white supremacy to a place where he thinks class may be more important than race. His focus falls on what was on southerners' minds and in their hearts since the 1930s; and to reveal their feeling and thinking, he scans fiction, popular commentary, and political rhetoric as he probes the defeat of segregation. His provocative view of a South regenerated from within is a companion for Herbert Shapiro's White Violence and Black Response: From Reconstruction to Montgomery (LJ 2/1/88) and Neil R. McMillen's Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow (LJ 2/1/89). A splendid bibliographical essay provides direction to sources, but scholars will wish for notes to the many, often poignant quotations. For informed laypersons as well as specialists.
- Thomas J. Davis, Univ. at Buffalo, N.Y.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: LSU Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0807116823
• ISBN 13: 9780807116821
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 364