Jim Crow Guide: The Way It Was

Kennedy, Stetson

ISBN 10: 0813009871 / ISBN 13: 9780813009872

Published by Florida Atlantic University Press, 1990

About this Item

238pp. Inscribed on the title page by Stetson Kennedy, dated 2004. Text is otherwise unmarked on white pages. Binding remains squared and secure. Glossy covers are clean and bright with only a lightly lifted fore edge from previous reading.

Seller Inventory # 68300

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Jim Crow Guide: The Way It Was
• Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Press
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813009871
• ISBN 13: 9780813009872
• Binding: Paperback. 8vo
• Edition: 1st American Edition.
• Condition: Very good.
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • FLORIDA
  • BLACK STUDIES
  • JACKSONVILLE AUTHORS
  • HISTORY

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Synopsis

"Jim Crow Guide" documents the system of legally imposed American apartheid that prevailed during what Kennedy calls "the long century from emancipation to the overcoming". The mock guidebook covers every area of activity where the tentacles of Jim Crow reached, dictating where and with whom one could live, study, work, travel, eat, sleep, play, assemble or marry. Drawing on primary and secondary written sources as well as unwritten custom and etiquette, Kennedy cites applicable strictures and typical individual experiences and includes accounts of punishment administered to violators. While Kennedy's focus is black-white relations, the guide also reports how Jim Crow relegated Native Americans, Hispanics, Asians and some religious minorities to second-class citizenship. From the texts of state statutes, municipal ordinances, federal regulations, and judicial rulings, Kennedy exhumes the legalistic skeleton of Jim Crow in a work for scholars and general readers.