The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives (Jacobin)

Reed, Adolph L., Jr. und Barbara J. Fields:

ISBN 10: 1839766263 / ISBN 13: 9781839766268

Published by Verso Books, 2022

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145 S. Gutes Exemplar, geringe Gebrauchsspuren, Cover/SU berieben/bestoßen, Schnitt/Papier nachgedunkelt, innen alles in Ordnung. Z250905ah127 ISBN: 9781839766268 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 254.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives (Jacobin)
• Publisher: Verso Books
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1839766263
• ISBN 13: 9781839766268
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Gut
• Weight: 254 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Englischsprachige Bücher

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Synopsis

Blending personal memoir with historical accounts, this searing history of the Jim Crow South captures the realities of those who experienced it—and shines a light on its enduring legacy.

The last generation of Americans with a living memory of Jim Crow will soon disappear. They leave behind a collective memory of segregation shaped increasingly by its horrors and heroic defeat but not a nuanced understanding of everyday life in Jim Crow America. In The South, Adolph L. Reed Jr.—hailed by Cornel West as “the greatest democratic theorist of his generation”—takes up the urgent task of recounting the granular realities of life in the last decades of the Jim Crow South.

Reed illuminates the multifaceted structures of the segregationist order. Through his personal history and political acumen, we see America’s apartheid system from the ground up, not just its legal framework or systems of power, but the way these systems structured the day-to-day interactions, lives, and ambitions of ordinary working people.

The South is more than a memoir or a history. Filled with analysis and fascinating firsthand accounts of the operation of the system that codified and enshrined racial inequality, this book is required reading for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of America’s second peculiar institution the future created in its wake.

About the Author

Adolph Reed Jr. is a leading scholar of race, American politics, and inequality. Reed is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, and has held positions at Yale, Northwestern, and the New School. He is a lifelong organizer and public intellectual, a contributing editor at The New Republic, and a frequent contributor to Harpers and The Nation.