The Jim Crow Routine

The Jim Crow Routine
Author :
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Total Pages : 348
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781469620947
ISBN-13 : 1469620944
Rating : 4/5 (944 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Jim Crow Routine by : Stephen A. Berrey

Download or read book The Jim Crow Routine written by Stephen A. Berrey and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-04-27 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The South’s system of Jim Crow racial oppression is usually understood in terms of legal segregation that mandated the separation of white and black Americans. Yet, as Stephen A. Berrey shows, it was also a high-stakes drama that played out in the routines of everyday life, where blacks and whites regularly interacted on sidewalks and buses and in businesses and homes. Every day, individuals made, unmade, and remade Jim Crow in how they played their racial roles — how they moved, talked, even gestured. The highly visible but often subtle nature of these interactions constituted the Jim Crow routine. In this study of Mississippi race relations in the final decades of the Jim Crow era, Berrey argues that daily interactions between blacks and whites are central to understanding segregation and the racial system that followed it. Berrey shows how civil rights activism, African Americans' refusal to follow the Jim Crow script, and national perceptions of southern race relations led Mississippi segregationists to change tactics. No longer able to rely on the earlier routines, whites turned instead to less visible but equally insidious practices of violence, surveillance, and policing, rooted in a racially coded language of law and order. Reflecting broader national transformations, these practices laid the groundwork for a new era marked by black criminalization, mass incarceration, and a growing police presence in everyday life.


The Jim Crow Routine Related Books

The Jim Crow Routine
Language: en
Pages: 348
Authors: Stephen A. Berrey
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-04-27 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

GET EBOOK

The South’s system of Jim Crow racial oppression is usually understood in terms of legal segregation that mandated the separation of white and black Americans
Jim Crow America
Language: en
Pages: 314
Authors: Catherine M. Lewis
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-03-01 - Publisher: University of Arkansas Press

GET EBOOK

This is a resource on racism and segregation in American life. The book is chronologically organized into five sections, each of which focuses on a different hi
Remembering Jim Crow
Language: en
Pages: 402
Authors: William H. Chafe
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-09-16 - Publisher: New Press, The

GET EBOOK

This “viscerally powerful . . . compilation of firsthand accounts of the Jim Crow era” won the Lillian Smith Book Award and the Carey McWilliams Award (Publ
Deluxe Jim Crow
Language: en
Pages: 401
Authors: Karen Kruse Thomas
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-12-01 - Publisher: University of Georgia Press

GET EBOOK

Plagued by geographic isolation, poverty, and acute shortages of health professionals and hospital beds, the South was dubbed by Surgeon General Thomas Parran "
Jim Crow Networks
Language: en
Pages: 208
Authors: Eurie Dahn
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021 - Publisher: Studies in Print Culture and t

GET EBOOK

Scholars have paid relatively little attention to the highbrow, middlebrow, and popular periodicals that African Americans read and discussed regularly during t