TY  - BOOK
AU  - Walker,Anders
TI  - The burning house: Jim Crow and the making of modern America 
SN  - 9780300235623
AV  - E185 .B876 2018
PY  - 2018///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Segregation
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; The Briar Patch --; The White Mare --; Inner Conflict --; Invisible Man --; The Color Curtain --; Intruder in the Dust --; Fire Next Time --; Everything That Rises Must Converge --; Who Speaks for the Negro? --; The Demonstrators --; Mockingbirds --; The Cantos --; Regents volume Bakke --; The Last Lynching --; Beyond the Peacock --; Missouri volume Jenkins; 2; b
N2  - A startling and gripping reexamination of the Jim Crow era, as seen through the eyes of some of the most important American writers In this dramatic reexamination of the Jim Crow South, Anders Walker investigates how prominent intellectuals like Robert Penn Warren, James Baldwin, Eudora Welty, Ralph Ellison, Flannery O'Connor, and Zora Neale Hurston handled the paradoxical relationship between diversity and equality. For some, white culture was fundamentally flawed, a "burning house," as James Baldwin put it, that endorsed racism and violence to maintain dominance. Why should black Americans exchange their rich and valuable traditions for an inferior white culture? Southern whites, meanwhile, saw themselves preserving a rich cultural landscape against the onslaught of mass culture and federal power, a project rooted in mutual respect, not violence. Anders Walker explores a racial diversity that was born out of Southern repression and that both black and white intellectuals worked to maintain. With great clarity and insight, he offers a new lens through which to understand the history of civil rights in the United States
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