The Star Creek Papers - Softcover

Bond, Horace Mann; Bond, Julia W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820340839 ISBN 13: 9780820340838

Publisher: University of Georgia Press, 2011

Synopsis

The Star Creek Papers is the never-before-published account of the complex realities of race relations in the rural South in the 1930s. When Horace and Julia Bond moved to Louisiana in 1934, they entered a world where the legacy of slavery was miscegenation, lingering paternalism, and deadly racism. The Bonds were a young, well-educated and idealistic African American couple working for the Rosenwald Fund, a trust established by a northern philanthropist to build schools in rural areas. They were part of the "Explorer Project" sent to investigate the progress of the school in the Star Creek district of Washington Parish. Their report, which decried the teachers' lack of experience, the poor quality of the coursework, and the students' chronic absenteeism, was based on their private journal, "The Star Creek Diary," a shrewdly observed, sharply etched, and affectionate portrait of a rural black community. Horace Bond was moved to write a seco

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Review:

An accessible and poignant work which will attract interest of anyone interested in the evolution of the black family and rural race relations.

--Fitzhugh Brundage "author of Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930 "

About the Author:

Horace Mann Bond (1904-1972) was a historian, teacher, university administrator, and the author of six scholarly books, including the prize-winning "Negro Education in Alabama: A Study in Cotton and Steel." His widow, Julia W. Bond, makes her home in Atlanta. Adam Fairclough is the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Chair of History and Culture of the United States at Leiden University. His books include "Martin Luther King, Jr.," "To Redeem the Soul of America," "Teaching Equality," "Race and Democracy," and "The Star Creek Papers" (all available from Georgia).

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0820340839
• ISBN 13: 9780820340838
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 204
• Editor: Fairclough Adam