Research Catalog

Title

Raising racists : the socialization of white children in the Jim Crow South / Kristina DuRocher.

Author

DuRocher, Kristina.

Publication

Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2011.

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Details

Description

viii, 237 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

White southerners recognized that the perpetuation of segregation required whites of all ages to uphold a strict social order -- especially the young members of the next generation. White children rested at the core of the system of segregation between 1890 and 1939 because their participation was crucial to ensuring the future of white supremacy. Their socialization in the segregated South offers an examination of white supremacy from the inside, showcasing the culture's efforts to preserve itself by teaching its beliefs to the next generation. In Raising Racists: The Socialization of White Children in the Jim Crow South, author Kristina DuRocher reveals how white adults in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries continually reinforced race and gender roles to maintain white supremacy. DuRocher examines the practices, mores, and traditions that trained white children to fear, dehumanize, and disdain their black neighbors. Raising Racists combines an analysis of the remembered experiences of a racist society, how that society influenced children, and, most important, how racial violence and brutality shaped growing up in the early-twentieth-century South.

Series Statement

New directions in southern history

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• New directions in southern history.

Subjects

• Southern States > Race relations > History
• African Americans > Segregation > History
• Children, White > Southern States > History
• Socialization > Southern States > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

"My mother had warned me about this": parental socialization in the Jim Crow south -- "We learned our lessons well": the growth of white privilege in southern schools -- Consumerism meets Jim Crow's children: white children and the culture of segregation -- "The course my life was to take": the violent reality of white youths socialization -- Violent masculinity: ritual and performance in southern lynchings -- "Is this the man?": white girls' participation in southern lynchings.

ISBN

• 9780813130019 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0813130018 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9780813130163 (ebook)
• 0813130166 (ebook)

LCCN

^^2010052272

OCLC

• 680434771
• SCSB-10698416

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library