1 option
Race becomes tomorrow : North Carolina and the shadow of civil rights / Gerald M. Sider.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sider, Gerald M., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Civil rights--North Carolina--History--20th century.
- African Americans.
- Racism--Political aspects--North Carolina.
- Racism.
- North Carolina--Race relations--History--20th century.
- North Carolina.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Gerald M. Sider weaves together stories from his civil rights activism, his childhood, and his experiences as an anthropologist to investigate the dynamic ways race has been constructed and lived in America since the 1960s.
- Contents:
- Did the conk rag lose?
- The waters of death and life
- Cockroach racing
- Naming troubles
- State making
- F&N : intimacy, distance, anger
- Living in the beyond
- "Out here it's dog eat dog and vice versa"
- Civil society and civil rights on one leg
- "We dies in harness..." : the tomorrows of vulnerable people
- Appendix: Demographic post-civil rights history of African American towns in Robeson County.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822375043
- 0822375044
- OCLC:
- 919524877
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.