Whitewashing the South - White Memories of Segregation and Civil Rights

Whitewashing the South is a powerful exploration of how ordinary white southerners recall living through extraordinary racial times-Jim Crow, civil rights, and post-civil rights. Drawing on interviews with the oldest living generation of white southerners, the book uncovers uncomfortable racial realities of the past and present.

List of contents

1: "Our Generation Had Nothing to Do with Discrimination"
2: "Only Love under Our Roof": Jim Crow at Home
3: "Just the Way It Was": Jim Crow in Public
4: Distancing and Rejection: The Civil Rights Movement at Arm's Length
5: White Victims: Trials and Tribulations of School Desegregation
6: Reflecting on a Lifetime: Views of the Post-Civil Rights Era
7: Memory and White Moral Identity
Appendix
Researching Elder White Southerners
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

Kristen Lavelle is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. She has published in the journal Ethnic and Racial Studies and is a contributor to the Encyclopedia of Race and Racism and International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences.

Summary

Whitewashing the South is a powerful exploration of how ordinary white southerners recall living through extraordinary racial times-Jim Crow, civil rights, and post-civil rights. Drawing on interviews with the oldest living generation of white southerners, the book uncovers uncomfortable racial realities of the past and present.

Product details

• Authors: Kristen M Lavelle, Kristen M. Lavelle, Lavelle Kristen M.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.10.2014
• EAN: 9781442239258
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-3925-8
• No. of pages: 238
• Series: Perspectives on a Multiracial America; Perspectives on a Multiracial America
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); USA, Ethnic Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, Social discrimination & inequality, United States of America, USA, Violence in society, Civil rights & citizenship, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Violence and abuse in society, Civics and citizenship, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism, Social discrimination and social justice, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General