{"product_id":"the-south-jim-crow-and-its-afterlives-hardcover","title":"The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAdolph L. Reed\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA narrative account of Jim Crow as people experienced it\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe last generation of Americans with a living memory of Jim Crow will soon disappear. They leave behind a collective memory of segregation shaped increasingly by its horrors and heroic defeat but not a nuanced understanding of everyday life in Jim Crow America. In \u003ci\u003eThe South\u003c\/i\u003e, Adolph L. Reed Jr. -- New Orleanian, political scientist, and according to Cornel West, \"the greatest democratic theorist of his generation\" -- takes up the urgent task of recounting the granular realities of life in the last decades of the Jim Crow South. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReed illuminates the multifaceted structures of the segregationist order. Through his personal history and political acumen, we see America's apartheid system from the ground up, not just its legal framework or systems of power, but the way these systems structured the day-to-day interactions, lives, and ambitions of ordinary working people. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe South\u003c\/i\u003e unravels the personal and political dimensions of the Jim Crow order, revealing the sources and objectives of this unstable regime, its contradictions and precarity, and the social order that would replace it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe South\u003c\/i\u003e is more than a memoir or a history. Filled with analysis and fascinating firsthand accounts of the operation of the system that codified and enshrined racial inequality, this book is required reading for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of America's second peculiar institution the future created in its wake. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith a foreword from Barbara Fields, co-author of the acclaimed \u003ci\u003eRacecraft\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdolph Reed Jr.\u003c\/b\u003e is a leading scholar of race, American politics, and inequality. Reed is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, and has held positions at Yale, Northwestern, and the New School. He is a lifelong organizer and public intellectual, a contributing editor at \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, and a frequent contributor to \u003ci\u003eHarpers \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Nation.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.4 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767454007584,"sku":"9781839766268","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/1bbbce40dab822f6fba28b0948c0d7b8.webp?v=1780311378","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-south-jim-crow-and-its-afterlives-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}