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Jim Crow’s Legacy shows the lasting impact of segregation on the lives of African Americans who lived through it, as well as its impact on future generations. The book draws on interviews with elderly African American southerners whose stories poignantly show the devastation of racism not only in the past, but also in the present.
The book introduces readers to the realities of the Jim Crow era for African Americans—from life at home to work opportunities to the broader social context in America. However, the book moves beyond merely setting the scene into the powerful memories of elderly African Americans who lived through Jim Crow. Their voices tell the complex stories of their everyday lives—from caring for white children to the racially-motivated murder of a loved one. Their stories show the pernicious impact of racism on both the past and the present. The authors use the phrase segregation stress syndrome to describe the long-term impact on physical, mental, and emotional health, as well as the unshakable influence of racism across years and generations.
Jim Crow’s Legacy takes readers on an unparalleled journey into the bitter realities of America’s racial past and shows racism’s unmistakable influence today.
Jim Crow’s Legacy shows the lasting impact of segregation on the lives of African Americans who lived through it, as well as its impact on future generations. The book draws on interviews with elderly African American southerners whose stories poignantly show the devastation of racism not only in the past, but also in the present.
The book introduces readers to the realities of the Jim Crow era for African Americans—from life at home to work opportunities to the broader social context in America. However, the book moves beyond merely setting the scene into the powerful memories of elderly African Americans who lived through Jim Crow. Their voices tell the complex stories of their everyday lives—from caring for white children to the racially-motivated murder of a loved one. Their stories show the pernicious impact of racism on both the past and the present. The authors use the phrase segregation stress syndrome to describe the long-term impact on physical, mental, and emotional health, as well as the unshakable influence of racism across years and generations.
Jim Crow’s Legacy takes readers on an unparalleled journey into the bitter realities of America’s racial past and shows racism’s unmistakable influence today.
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Reality and Impact of Jim Crow
Chapter 3: Everyday Surveillance and Racial Framing
Chapter 4: More Surveillance of Black Bodies
Chapter 5: Rape and Rape Threats: More Weapons of White Terror
Chapter 6: Coping and Resistance Strategies
Chapter 7: Fifty Years Later: Jim Crow Unwilling to Die
Ruth Thompson-Miller is assistant professor of sociology at the
University of Dayton.
Joe R. Feagin is Ella C. McFadden Professor of Sociology at Texas
A&M University. A former president of the American Sociological
Association, he is author, co-author, or editor of numerous books
and articles, including The First R and The Many Costs of
Racism.
Leslie H. Picca is associate professor and chair of the Department
of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work at the University of
Dayton. She is the co-author of Two-Faced Racism.
Basing their work on the lived experiences of African Americans,
Thompson-Miller, Feagin, and Picca introduce readers to a
compelling and emotional account of the realities and psychological
outcomes for African Americans during the Jim Crow era. Positioned
within the frame of systemic racism—'institutionalized structures
of white-created racial oppression'—the authors address the
important issues of voicing the experienced realities and coping
strategies by African Americans during Jim Crow segregation; the
long-term psychological, physical, and economic consequences for
the survivors; and the intergenerational impact of these
experiences. Using the concept of 'segregation stress syndrome' to
explain the collective psychological and physical outcomes of Jim
Crow segregation, the authors give voice to the complexities of
everyday life, from discrimination in travel, stores, and various
other public spaces to rapes and murders of loved ones. Emotionally
charged and intellectually stimulating, this book is must reading
for anyone interested in racial relations. Summing Up: Essential.
All levels/libraries.
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Drawing from the lived experience of African American elders
refracted through the concept of the 'segregation stress syndrome,'
the authors provide a rich, well-documented, and convincing
examination of the 'extraordinary, deep-lying, painful, and
horrific' cumulative and intergenerational consequences of the Jim
Crow era notwithstanding African American resistance and resilience
to racial oppression. Their investigation moves beyond a mere
examination of macro-aggressions that have perpetuated racial
inequality in terms of occupation, income, wealth, and other social
indicators. They also lay bare mico- and meso-level ones that have
had an equally deleterious impact on the physical and mental health
of African Americans. This masterful book should put to rest any
fanciful notions that the United States is a colorblind or
post-racial society despite the considerable progress the nation
has made in addressing and eliminating racial inequality since the
end of legalized segregation.
*G. Reginald Daniel, University of California, Santa Barbara,
co-editor of Race and the Obama Phenomenon: The Vision of a More
Perfect Multiracial Union*
These hidden stories of survivors of White terror situate the past
at the core of the present, where accumulated privileging and
dehumanization has kept the segregation stress syndrome alive
across generations. Jim Crow’s Legacy convinces that collective
trauma requires healing of society as whole—an invaluable global
lesson.
*Philomena Essed, Antioch University*
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