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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.
