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The Jim Crow Routine. Everyday Performances of Race, Civil Rights, and Segregation in Mississippi.
Stephen A. Berrey
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Description for The Jim Crow Routine. Everyday Performances of Race, Civil Rights, and Segregation in Mississippi.
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBSM; JFFJ; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 517.
The South's system of Jim Crow racial oppression is usually understood in terms of legal segregation that mandated the separation of white and black Americans. Yet, as Stephen A. Berrey shows, it was also a high-stakes drama that played out in the routines of everyday life, where blacks and whites regularly interacted on sidewalks and buses and in businesses and homes. Every day, individuals made, unmade, and remade Jim Crow in how they played their racial roles--how they moved, talked, even gestured. The highly visible but often subtle nature of these interactions constituted the Jim Crow routine.
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The South's system of Jim Crow racial oppression is usually understood in terms of legal segregation that mandated the separation of white and black Americans. Yet, as Stephen A. Berrey shows, it was also a high-stakes drama that played out in the routines of everyday life, where blacks and whites regularly interacted on sidewalks and buses and in businesses and homes. Every day, individuals made, unmade, and remade Jim Crow in how they played their racial roles--how they moved, talked, even gestured. The highly visible but often subtle nature of these interactions constituted the Jim Crow routine.
In this ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9781469620930
SKU
V9781469620930
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About Stephen A. Berrey
Stephen A. Berrey is assistant professor of American culture and history at the University of Michigan, USA.
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