Race against time : culture and separation in Natchez since 1930 / Jack E. Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Jack E., 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Civil rights--Mississippi--Natchez--History--20th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Segregation--Mississippi--Natchez--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

History.

African Americans--Segregation.

African Americans--Civil rights.

Natchez (Miss.)--Race relations.

Natchez (Miss.).

Civil rights movements--Mississippi--Natchez--History--20th century.

Mississippi--Natchez.

Physical Description:

xiii, 351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2001]

Summary:

WHILE many studies of race relations have focused on the black experience, Race against Time strives to unravel the emotional and cultural foundations of race in the white mind. Jack E. Davis combed primary documents in Natchez, Mississippi, and absorbed the town's oral history to understand white racial attitudes there over the past seven decades, a period rich in social change, strife, and reconciliation. What he found in this community that cultivates for profit a romantic view of the Old South challenges conventional assumptions about racial prejudice.

Contents:

Introduction: Culture and Separation 1

Prologue: Going to Natchez 13

Chapter 1 History Lessons: Perpetuating Myths and Values 23

Chapter 2 Pilgrimage to the Past: Public History, Women, and the Racial Order 51

Chapter 3 The Harmonious Society: Jews, Gentiles, and Upper-Class Blacks 83

Chapter 4 "They Went Along with the Segregation Part of It": Industrialization 115

Chapter 5 The End of Social Harmony 148

Chapter 6 Civil Rights and Uncivil Responses 178

Chapter 7 The Hidden Curriculum: School Desegregation 207

Chapter 8 The Shadow of Jim Crow 241

Epilogue: Leaving Natchez 274.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-337) and index.

ISBN:

0807125857

OCLC:

45166649