Jim Crow America: A Documentary History

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2LEWIS_pages_163-278.qxd 2/11/09 10:21 AM Page 250 ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY Books Ashmore, Harry S. Civil Rights and Wrongs: A Memoir of Race and Politics, 1944–1994. New York: Pantheon Books, 1994. As executive editor the Arkansas Gazette and author of a series of Pulitzer Prize–winning editorials during 1957, Ashmore was both an active participant in and concerned observer of the politics of race after World War II. His memoir begins during the war, when Jim Crow was still very much alive, and shows how the desegregation effort shaped the second half of the twentieth century. Ayres, Edward L. The Promise of the New South: Life after Reconstruction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Along with James M. McPherson’s Battle Cry of Freedom (1988) and Eric Foner’s Reconstruction (1988), Ayres’s book represents a flowering of scholarship on this period in American history, with particular focus on political, cultural, and social change. Ayres aims “to understand what it meant to live in the American South in the years after Reconstruction.” Ayres’s focus on the role the railroads played in giving rise to commercial and industrial growth while simultaneously encouraging segregation is particularly useful in understanding this period. Chafe, William Henry, Raymond Gavins, and Robert Korstad, eds., Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South. New York: New Press, 2003. Using Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies’ Behind the Veil project , this book and audio collection draws upon interviews of a diverse range of individuals from twenty-five communities in ten states. It seeks to examine how “African Americans developed their own life, hidden and estranged from the lives of white people.” Two one-hour CDs of the radio documentary produced by American Radio Works, a transcript of that program, fifty rare photographs from the Jim Crow era, biographical information, and a bibliography are included. The volume is a sequel to Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk about Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation, edited by Ira Berlin, Marc Fabreau, Steven F. Miller, and Robin D. G. Kelley (New York: New Press, 2000). Dailey, Jane. Before Jim Crow: The Politics of Race in Postemancipation Virginia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, Press, 2000. Dailey, an associate professor of history at The Johns Hopkins University and coeditor of Jumpin’ Jim Crow: Southern Politics from Civil War to Civil Rights, examines the history of Virginia’s Readjuster Party, an interracial coalition in the postEmancipation South that sought cooperative between races. 2LEWIS_pages_163-278.qxd 2/11/09 10:21 AM Page 251 Franklin, John Hope. Reconstruction after the Civil War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. First published in 1961, Franklin’s landmark study helped shape the field for the next four decades. Franklin’s work, which describes the reasons for the failure of Reconstruction, focuses on several important topics organized as chapters: “The Aftermath of the War”; “Presidential Peacemaking”; “Reconstruction: Confederate Style”; “Confederate Reconstruction under Fire”; “Challenge by Congress”; “The South’s New Leaders”; “Constitution-Making in the Radical South”; “Reconstruction—Black and White”; “The Era Begins to End”; and “The Aftermath of ‘Redemption.’” At 226 pages, it is a concise introduction to the topic. Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth. Gender and Jim Crow: The Political Culture of Reconstruction. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. Gilmore’s study focuses on segregation in North Carolina at the turn of the century as it developed in response to the growing independence of white women. As black men were demonized as sexual predators, black women worked in the white community to generate some measure of interracial cooperation. Hale, Elizabeth Grace. Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890–1940. New York: Pantheon Books, 1998. This cultural history examines how whiteness was constructed in the post–Civil War era. Hale argues that whites in the North and South embraced a collective identity of superiority, and this volume fits nicely with Ian Haney-Lopez’s White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race (1995) and David Theo Goldberg’s Racist Culture: Philosophy and the Politics of Meaning (1993) and Racial Subjects: Writing on Race in America (1997). Hanchett, Thomas W. Sorting Out the New South City: Race, Class, and Urban Development in Charlotte, 1875–1975. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Hanchett takes Charlotte, one of the South’s largest and fastest growing cities, and examines how it was transformed from...