Growing up Jim Crow How Black and White Southern Children Learned Race

Name: Growing up Jim Crow How Black and White Southern Children Learned Race
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ISBN: 9780807856840

ISBN-10: 0807856843

ISBN-13: 9780807856840

Edition: 2006

Authors: Jennifer Ritterhouse

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In the segregated South of the early twentieth century, unwritten rules guided every aspect of individual behavior, from how blacks and whites stood, sat, ate, drank, walked, and talked to whether they made eye contact with one another. Jennifer Ritterhouse asks how children learned this racial "etiquette," which was sustained by coercion and the threat of violence. More broadly, she asks how individuals developed racial self-consciousness. Parental instruction was an important factor--both white parents' reinforcement of a white supremacist worldview and black parents' oppositional lessons in respectability and race pride. Children also learned much from their interactions across race…

Book details

List price: $32.50
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 5/15/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Jennifer Ritterhouse is associate professor of history at Utah State University. She is editor of Sarah Patton Boyle's The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian's Stand in Time of Transition and coeditor of the award-winning Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Forgotten Alternatives



The Etiquette of Race Relations



Carefully Taught



I Knew Then Who I Was



Playing and Fighting



Adolescence


Conclusion: Children of the Sun


Notes


Bibliography


Index