A rage for order : Black/White relations in the American South since emancipation / Joel Williamson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williamson, Joel.

Contributor:

Williamson, Joel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Civil rights--Southern States.

African Americans.

African Americans--Civil rights.

History.

Southern States.

African Americans--Southern States--History.

Southern States--Race relations.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

x, 316 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [1986]

Summary:

The Crucible of Race, a major reinterpretation of black-white relations in the South, was widely acclaimed on publication and compared favorably to two of the seminal books on Southern history: Wilbur J. Cash's The Mind of Jim Crow. Representing 20 years of research and writing on the history of the South, The Crucible of Race explores the large topic of Southern race relations for a span of a century and a half. Oxford is pleased to make available an abridgement of this parent volume: A Rage for Order preserves all the theme lines that were advanced in the original volume and many of the individual stories. As in Crucible of Race, Williamson here confronts the awful irony that the war to free blacks from slavery also freed racism. He examines the shift in the power base of Southern white leadership after 1850 and recounts the terrible violence done to blacks in the name of self-protection. This condensation of one of the most important interpretations of Southern history is offered as a means by which a large audience can grasp the essentials of black-white relations--a problem that persists to this day and one with which we all must contend--North and South, black and white.

Notes:

"An abridged edition of The crucible of race"--T.p. verso.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.

Related Work:

Williamson, Joel. Crucible of race.

ISBN:

0195040244

0195040252

OCLC:

13062873