Georgia in Black and White

Explorations in Race Relations of a Southern State, 1865-1950

Edited by John C. Inscoe

Title Details

Pages: 312

Trim size: 6.000in x 9.000in

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Paperback

Pub Date: 12/01/2009

ISBN: 9-780-8203-3505-6

List Price: $36.95

Georgia in Black and White

Explorations in Race Relations of a Southern State, 1865-1950

Edited by John C. Inscoe

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  • Description
The eleven essays in this collection explore the variety of ways in which whites and blacks in Georgia interacted from the end of the Civil War to the dawn of the civil rights movement. They reveal the extent to which racial matters infused politics, religion, education, gender relationships, kinship structure, and community dynamics. In their focus on a broad range of individuals, incidents, and locales, the essays look beyond the obvious injustices of the color line to examine the intricacies, ambiguities, contradictions, and above all, the human dimension that made that line far less rigid or absolute than is often assumed. The stories told here offer new insights into, and provocative interpretations of, the actions and reactions of the men and women, black and white, engaged on both sides of the struggle for racial justice and reform. They provide vivid testimony to the complexity and diversity that have always characterized southern race relations.

About the Author/Editor

JOHN C. INSCOE is a professor of history emeritus at the University of Georgia and the founding editor of the New Georgia Encyclopedia. He is coauthor of The Heart of Confederate Appalachia.