Whitewashing the South is a powerful exploration of how ordinary white southerners recall living through extraordinary racial times--the Jim Crow era, civil rights movement, and the post-civil rights era--highlighting tensions between memory and reality. Author Kristen Lavelle draws on interviews with the oldest living generation of white southerners to uncover uncomfortable memories of our racial past. The vivid interview excerpts show how these lifelong southerners reflect on race in the segregated South, the civil rights era, and more recent decades. The book illustrates a number of...

Whitewashing the South is a powerful exploration of how ordinary white southerners recall living through extraordinary racial times--the Jim Crow era, civil rights movement, and the post-civil rights era--highlighting tensions between memory and reality. Author Kristen Lavelle draws on interviews with the oldest living generation of white southerners to uncover uncomfortable memories of our racial past. The vivid interview excerpts show how these lifelong southerners reflect on race in the segregated South, the civil rights era, and more recent decades. The book illustrates a number of...