Jim Crow Guide: The Way It Was

Kennedy, Stetson

ISBN 10: 0813009871 / ISBN 13: 9780813009872

Published by Florida Atlantic University Press, 1990

About this Item

238pp. Inscribed on the title page by Stetson Kennedy, dated 2004. Text is otherwise unmarked on white pages. Binding remains squared and secure. Glossy covers are clean and bright with only a lightly lifted fore edge from previous reading.

Seller Inventory # 68300

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Jim Crow Guide: The Way It Was
• Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Press
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813009871
• ISBN 13: 9780813009872
• Binding: Paperback. 8vo
• Edition: 1st American Edition.
• Condition: Very good.
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • FLORIDA
  • BLACK STUDIES
  • JACKSONVILLE AUTHORS
  • HISTORY

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Synopsis

"A tongue-in-cheek travel guide to the United States as Stetson Kennedy saw it in the 1950s when segregation was still firmly in place and when there were many barriers in housing, education, and job opportunities for blacks, Native Americans, Jews, Puerto Ricans, Mexican Americans, and almost anyone who was not a white Protestant. . . . The <i>Guide<em/> was [first] published in Paris in 1956 by Jean-Paul Sartre because the author could find no American publisher who was willing to issue the book. In this new edition, Kennedy has added an afterword that provides his impressions of contemporary ‘desegregated racism’."—<i>Florida Historical Quarterly</i>

<i>Jim Crow Guide</i> documents  the system of legally imposed American apartheid that prevailed during what Stetson Kennedy calls "the long century from Emancipation to the Overcoming." The mock guidebook covers every area of activity where the tentacles of Jim Crow reached. From the texts of state statutes, municipal ordinances, federal regulations, and judicial rulings, Kennedy exhumes the legalistic skeleton of Jim Crow in a work of permanent value for scholars and of exceptional appeal for general readers.