Filled with analysis and fascinating firsthand accounts of the operation of the system that codified and enshrined racial inequality, this book is required reading for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of America's second peculiar institution the future created in its wake.

and against the system of racial segregation that defined a specific regime of explicitly racial subordination in the South. Reed Jr., including Class Notes: Posing As Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene, and The South: Jim Crow. The South is more than a memoir or a history. Unfortunately Reed deals only with liberal anti-racism and does so in order to defend social democracy rather than a liberatory politics. The South unravels the personal and political dimensions of the Jim Crow order, revealing the sources and objectives of this unstable regime, its contradictions and precarity, and the social order that would replace it. Through his personal history and political acumen, we see America’s apartheid system from the ground up, not just its legal framework or systems of power, but the way these systems structured the day-to-day interactions, lives, and ambitions of ordinary working people. Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. Reed illuminates the multifaceted structures of the segregationist order. The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives is written by Adolph L. New Orleanian, political scientist, and according to Cornel West, “the greatest democratic theorist of his generation” - takes up the urgent task of recounting the granular realities of life in the last decades of the Jim Crow South. 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 Crow America. The last generation of Americans with a living memory of Jim Crow will soon disappear. A narrative account of Jim Crow as people experienced it

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