Growing Up Jim Crow: How Black and White Southern Children Learned Race
- ISBN-10
- 0807856843
- ISBN-13
- 9780807856840
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 306
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of North Carolina Press
- Author
- Jennifer Ritterhouse
Description
Sheds new light on the racial etiquette of the South after the Civil War, examining what factors contributed to the unwritten rules of individual behavior for both white and black children. Simultaneous.
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