Caste and class in a southern town / John Dollard ; with a foreword by Daniel Patrick Moynihan. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dollard, John, 1900-1980.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Southern States--Social conditions--Case studies.

African Americans.

African Americans--Mississippi--Indianola--Social conditions.

Southern States--Race relations--Case studies.

Southern States.

Indianola (Miss.)--Race relations.

Indianola (Miss.).

African Americans--Social conditions--Case studies--Southern States.

African Americans--Social conditions--Mississippi--Indianola.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 466 p. )

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 1988.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Analysis of the effects of long-established patterns of discrimination upon the Negro and white citizens of a single Southern town poses the general problem in the specific terms of social research.

Contents:

Preface

1957

research site

Research method

Bias

Attitudes toward the North and their history

Caste and class in Southerntown

Gains of the white middle class: economic

Sexual gain

Prestige gain

Cast patterning of education

Caste patterning of politics

Caste patterning of religion

Accommodation attitudes of negroes

Aggression within the negro group

Negro aggression against Whites

White caste aggression against Negroes

Defensive beliefs of the White caste

Gains of the lower-class Negroes

Caste symbolism: race prejudice

Appendix: Life history of middle-class Negroes

Index.

Notes:

Reprint, with new introd. Originally published: 3rd ed. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1957, c1949. Originally published in series: Doubleday anchor books ; A95.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-299-12130-5