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Growing Up Jim Crow: How Black And White Southern Children Learned Race
Jennifer Ritterhouse
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Description for Growing Up Jim Crow: How Black And White Southern Children Learned Race
Paperback. Explores relationships between public and private and between segregation, racial etiquette, and racial violence. The author sheds light on tradition and change in the South and the meanings of segregation within southern culture. She asks how children learned the racial "etiquette," which was sustained by coercion and the threat of violence. Num Pages: 328 pages, 11 illustrations, notes, bibl., index. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 1KBBS; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807856840
SKU
V9780807856840
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About Jennifer Ritterhouse
Jennifer Ritterhouse is assistant professor of history at Utah State University. She is editor of Sarah Patton Boyle's The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian's Stand in Time of Transition and coeditor of the award-winning Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South.
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