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The burning house : Jim Crow and the making of modern America

Summary: A startling and gripping reexamination of the Jim Crow era, as seen through the eyes of some of the most important American writers In this dramatic reexamination of the Jim Crow South, Anders Walker investigates how prominent intellectuals like Robert Penn Warren, James Baldwin, Eudora Welty, Ralph Ellison, Flannery O'Connor, and Zora Neale Hurston handled the paradoxical relationship between diversity and equality. For some, white culture was fundamentally flawed, a "burning house," as James Baldwin put it, that endorsed racism and violence to maintain dominance. Why should black Americans exchange their rich and valuable traditions for an inferior white culture? Southern whites, meanwhile, saw themselves preserving a rich cultural landscape against the onslaught of mass culture and federal power, a project rooted in mutual respect, not violence. Anders Walker explores a racial diversity that was born out of Southern repression and that both black and white intellectuals worked to maintain. With great clarity and insight, he offers a new lens through which to understand the history of civil rights in the United States.

Record details

ISBN: 0300223986
ISBN: 9780300223989
ISBN: 0300235623
ISBN: 9780300235623
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 290 pages)
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Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
Copyright: ©2018

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	1. The Briar Patch -- 2. The White Mare -- 3. Inner Conflict -- 4. Invisible Man -- 5. The Color Curtain -- 6. Intruder in the Dust -- 7. Fire Next Time -- 8. Everything That Rises Must Converge -- 9. Who Speaks for the Negro? -- 10. The Demonstrators -- 11. Mockingbirds -- 12. The Cantos -- 13. Regents v. Bakke -- 14. The Last Lynching -- 15. Beyond the Peacock -- 16. Missouri v. Jenkins.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.