South - Jim Crow and Its Afterlives

A narrative account of Jim Crow as people experienced it.

About the author

Adolph L. Reed, Jr. is a political scientist at the University of Pennsylvania. He is author of Class Notes, The Jesse Jackson Phenomenon, W. E. B. DuBois and American Political Thought, and Stirrings in the Jug. He has written articles for the Progressive, Black Agenda and many other publications. Politically active since the 1960s, he brings a wealth of experience and expertise to the debates around Barack Obama, and wider issues concerning both black and progressive politics.Barbara J. Fields is Professor of History at Columbia University. Her books include the prize-winning Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland During the Nineteenth Century; The Destruction of Slavery (coauthored with the Freedmen and Southern Society Project); and Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War.

Summary

A narrative account of Jim Crow as people experienced it.

Product details

• Authors: Adolph Reed, Adolph L Reed, Adolph L. Reed, Reed Adolph L.
• Assisted by: Barbara J. Fields (Foreword)
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2022
• EAN: 9781839766268
• ISBN: 978-1-83976-626-8
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Jacobin
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Memoirs, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, History of the Americas, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs