Status
Available
Publication
Doubleday Anchor Book (1957)
Description
Analysis of the effects of long-established patterns of discrimination upon the Negro and white citizens of a single Southern town poses the general problem in the specific terms of social research.
Collection
Original publication date
1937
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User reviews
LibraryThing member booksaplenty1949
A highly readable participant observer account of, yes, caste and class in a southern town---Indianola MS, where the author stayed in the boarding house run by Craig Claiborne's mother. CC was 14 at the time. One is familiar with accounts of the segregated South in the context of the Civil Rights
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era; this book, written in 1937 and continuously in print since, cannot envision the collapse of a system so solidly buttressed by every legal, and more importantly, psychological support. Fortunately the author's Freudian sympathies are not overly obtrusive. Show Less