Managing White Supremacy: Race, Politics, and Citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia

by J. Douglas Smith and J. Smith

Book Overview

Tracing the erosion of white elite paternalism in Jim Crow Virginia, Douglas Smith reveals a surprising fluidity in southern racial politics in the decades between World War I and the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision.

Smith draws on official records, private correspondence, and letters to newspapers from otherwise anonymous Virginians to capture a wide and varied range of black and white voices. African Americans...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807854247
• ISBN13: 9780807854242
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.4"