Growing Up Jim Crow: The Racial Socialization of Black and White Southern Children, 1890-1940

Description

In the segregated South of the early twentieth century, unwritten rules guided every aspect of individual behavior, from how blacks and whites stood, sat, ate, drank, walked, and talked to whether they made eye contact with one another. Jennifer Ritterhouse asks how children learned this racial "etiquette," which was sustained by coercion and the threat of violence. More broadly, she asks how individuals developed racial self-consciousness.

Parental instruction was an important factor--both white parents' reinforcement of a white supremacist worldview and black parents' oppositional lessons in respectability and race pride. Children also learned much from their interactions across race lines. The fact that black youths were often eager to stand up for themselves, despite the risks, suggests that the emotional underpinnings of the civil rights movement were in place long before the historical moment when change became possible. Meanwhile, a younger generation of whites continued to enforce traditional patterns of domination and deference in private, while also creating an increasingly elaborate system of segregation in public settings. Exploring relationships between public and private and between segregation, racial etiquette, and racial violence, Growing Up Jim Crow sheds new light on tradition and change in the South and the meanings of segregation within southern culture.

Disclaimer:
Contents of this page are indexed from the Internet. All actions are under your responsability. Email us to report illegal contents or external links and we'll remove them immediately.

Please check the description for download links if any or do a search to find alternative books.

Can't Download?
Please search mirrors if you can't find download links for "Growing Up Jim Crow: The Racial Socialization of Black and White Southern Children, 1890-1940" in "Description" and someone else may update the links. Check the comments when back to find any updates.

Search Mirrors
Maybe some mirror pages will be helpful, search this book at top of this page or click here to find more info.

1. Ebooks list page : 3069
2. Leading in Black and White: Working Across the Racial Divide in Corporate America
3. America Beyond Black and White: How Immigrants and Fusions Are Helping Us Overcome the Racial Divide
4. Not So Plain as Black and White: Afro-German Culture and History, 1890-2000
5. From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality
6. The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America
7. Airships in International Affairs, 1890-1940
8. Airships in International Affairs, 1890-1940
9. The Fourth Ghost: White Southern Writers and European Fascism, 1930-1950 (Southern Literary Studies)
10. Irish Novels 1890-1940: New Bearings in Culture and Fiction
11. The Birth of a Scourge: The Anti-Cancer War in France 1890-1940
12. The Revolutionary Russian Economy, 1890-1940: Ideas, Debates and Alternatives
13. Entertainment Industrialised: The Emergence of the International Film Industry, 1890-1940
14. Women, Feminism and Social Change in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, 1890-1940
15. Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America
16. Freedom Colonies: Independent Black Texans in the Time of Jim Crow