The burning house : Jim Crow and the making of modern America
Walker, Anders2018
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In this dramatic reexamination of the Jim Crow South, Anders Walker demonstrates that racial segregation fostered not simply terror and violence, but also diversity, one of our most celebrated ideals. He investigates how prominent intellectuals like Robert Penn Warren, James Baldwin, Eudora Welty, Ralph Ellison, Flannery O'Connor, and Zora Neale Hurston found pluralism in Jim Crow, a legal system that created two worlds, each with its own institutions, traditions, even cultures.
Main title:
The burning house : Jim Crow and the making of modern America / Anders Walker.
Author:
Walker, Anders, author
Imprint:
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2018.
Collation:
304 pages ; 24 cm
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9780300223989 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
305.896073
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
270950
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