The Jim Crow Routine : Everyday Performances of Race, Civil Rights, and Segregation in Mississippi /

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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 this work shows, it was also a high-stakes drama that played out in the routines of everyday life, where blacks and whites regu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Berrey, Stephen A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Racism.
Race relations.
Manners and customs.
African Americans > Social life and customs.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Racisme > Mississippi > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Noirs americains > Mississippi > Moeurs et coutumes > 20e siecle.
Racism > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Mississippi > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Mississippi.
Mississippi > Relations raciales > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Mississippi > Moeurs et coutumes > 20e siecle.
Mississippi > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Mississippi > Social life and customs > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intimate spaces : performance and the making of Jim Crow
  • Benevolence, violence, and militancy : competing narratives of race and aggression
  • Jim Crow audiences : Southerners, the nation, and the centralization of racial surveillance
  • Breaching the peace : arrests and the regulation of racial space
  • Intimacy, Black criminality, and whiteness : the evolving public narratives of race
  • Epilogue : living post Jim Crow.

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