The Crucible of Race

Black/white Relations in the American South Since Emancipation

• Author(s): Joel Williamson,
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Pages: 561
• ISBN_10: 0195033825
  ISBN_13: 9780195033823
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General , History / United States / 19th Century , History / United States / 20th Century , Political Science / Civil Rights , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies , Social Science / Minority Studies , Social Science / Discrimination , Social Science / Race & Ethnic Relations ,

Description:... This landmark work provides a fundamental reinterpretation of the American South in the years since the Civil War, especially the decades after Reconstruction, from 1877 to 1920. Covering all aspects of Southern life--white and black, conservative and progressive, literary and political--it offers a new understanding of the forces that shaped the South of today.