The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives

by Adolph L. Reed Jr.

Book Overview

Blending personal memoir with historical accounts, this searing history of the Jim Crow South captures the realities of those who experienced it--and shines a light on its enduring legacy.

The last generation of Americans with a living memory of Jim Crow will soon disappear. They leave behind a collective memory of segregation shaped increasingly by its horrors and heroic defeat but not a nuanced understanding of everyday life in Jim...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1839766263
• ISBN13: 9781839766268
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.4"