In the segregated South of the early twentieth century, unwritten rules guided every aspect of individual behavior, from how blacks and whites stood, sat, ate, drank, walked, and talked to whether they made eye contact with one another. Jennifer Ritterhouse asks how children learned this racial "etiquette," which was sustained by coercion and the threat of violence. More broadly, she asks how individuals developed racial self-consciousness.
Parental instruction was an important factor--both white parents' reinforcement of a white supremacist worldview and black parents' oppositional...
In the segregated South of the early twentieth century, unwritten rules guided every aspect of individual behavior, from how blacks and whites stood, ...
Jennifer Ritterhouse pieces together Jonathan Daniels's unpublished notes from his tour of the American South, along with his published writings and a wealth of archival evidence to put this one man's journey through a South in transition into a larger context.
Jennifer Ritterhouse pieces together Jonathan Daniels's unpublished notes from his tour of the American South, along with his published writings and a...
