Trouble in Mind
Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow
$44.18
- Paperback
640 pages
- Release Date
15 September 1999
Summary
A searing history of life under Jim Crow that recalls the bloodiest and most repressive period in the history of race relations in the United States—and the painful record of discrimination that haunts us to this day. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Been in the Storm So Long.
“The stain of Jim Crow runs deep in 20th-century America…. Its effects remain the nation’s most pressing business. Trouble in Mind is an absolutely essential account of its dreadful hi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375702631 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0375702636 |
| Author: | Leon F. Litwack |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House USA Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 640 |
| Release Date: | 15 September 1999 |
| Weight: | 570g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 127mm x 36mm |
| Series: | Vintage |
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“The most complete and moving account we have had of what the victims of the Jim Crow South suffered and somehow endured.” —C. Vann Woodward“Moving, elegant, earthy and pointed… . It forces us to reckon with the tragic legacies of freedom as well as of slavery. And it reminds us of the resilience and creativity of the human spirit.” —Steven Hahn, The San Diego Union-Tribune“A chilling reminder of how simple it has been for Americans to delude themselves about the power of race.” —The Raleigh News & Observer
About The Author
Leon F. Litwack
Leon F. Litwack is the author of Been in the Storm So Long, which won the Pulitzer Prize in History and the Parkman Prize. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two Distinguished Teaching Awards, and a National Endowment for the Humanities Film Grant, and is the Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of American History at the University of California, Berkeley.
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