Hostname: page-component-8448b6f56d-dnltx Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-23T14:27:04.184Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

New Takes on Jim Crow: A Review of Recent Scholarship

Review products

NicholasGuyatt, Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation, New York: Basic Books, 2016. Pp. xii, 403. $29.99 cloth (ISBN 978-0-4650-1841-3).
SarahHaley, No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. Pp. xv, 337. $34.95 cloth (ISBN 978-1-4696-2759-5).
RobertCassanello, To Render Invisible: Jim Crow and Public Life in New South Jacksonville, Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2013. Pp. xv, 188. $18.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-8130-6219-8).

Show more reviewed productsShow more reviewed products

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 March 2018

Anders Walker
Anders Walker*
Affiliation:
Saint Louis University
*
awalke16@slu.edu
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

More than half a century has passed since C. Vann Woodward penned his iconic monograph, The Strange Career of Jim Crow, and legal segregation continues to compel. Recent works have reassessed Jim Crow's birth, its life, and its aftermath, suggesting that the system was at once more implicated in the reproduction of racist ideas than had been previously assumed, and also more fluid: a variegated landscape of rules and norms that lent themselves to various forms of political, legal, and cultural resistance.

Type
Review Essay
Information
Law and History Review , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , February 2018 , pp. 173 - 179
Copyright
Copyright © the American Society for Legal History, Inc. 2018 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1. Rabinowitz, Howard N., “From Exclusion to Segregation: Southern Race Relations, 1865–1890,” Journal of American History 63 (Sep. 1976), 325–350 CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Cell, John W., The Highest Stage of White Supremacy: The Origins of Segregation in South Africa and the American South (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1982), 179–180 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.