Jim Crow guide : the way it was / Stetson Kennedy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kennedy, Stetson.

Standardized Title:

Jim Crow guide to the U.S.A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minorities--United States.

Minorities.

United States.

Race discrimination--United States.

Race discrimination.

African Americans--Social conditions.

United States--Race relations.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

238 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton : Florida Atlantic University Press ; Gainesville, FL : Orders to University Presses of Florida, [1990]

Summary:

Jim Crow Guide documents the system of legally imposed American apartheid that prevailed during what Stetson Kennedy calls "the long century from Emancipation to the Overcoming." First published in Paris in 1956 by Jean-Paul Sartre and subsequently issued in many languages around the world, the Guide could find no U.S. publisher while Jim Crow reigned.

The mock guidebook covers every area of activity where the tentacles of Jim Crow reached, dictating where and with whom one could live, study, work, travel, eat, sleep, play, assemble, or marry. For this edition, Kennedy has written a new afterword that offers his impressions of today's "desegregated racism."

Contents:

Why This Guide 7

1 No Room for Redskins 9

2 White Man's Country 26

3 America's Great Wall 37

4 Who is Coloured Where 47

5 Who may Marry Whom 58

6 Who may Live Where 72

7 Who may Study Where 86

8 Who may Work Where 109

9 Who are Subject to Forced Labour 131

10 Who may Vote Where 147

11 Look Out for the Law 165

12 Who may Travel How 178

13 Open to All (Whites) 190

14 The Dictates of Racist Etiquette 203

Alarum and Excursion 228

The Long Minute (1990) 231.

Notes:

"Originally published as Jim Crow guide to the U.S.A. by Lawrence & Wishart, Ltd."--T.p. verso.

ISBN:

0813009871

OCLC:

20634401