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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Education Report
Author: Race Against Time
Author: Jack E. DavisPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807130278
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
While many studies of race relations have focused on the black experience, Race against Time strives to unravel the emotional and cultural foundations of race in the white mind. Jack E. Davis combed primary documents in Natchez, Mississippi, and absorbed the town's oral history to understand white racial attitudes there over the past seven decades, a period rich in social change, strife, and reconciliation. What he found in this community that cultivates for profit a romantic view of the Old South challenges conventional assumptions about racial prejudice. Davis engagingly and effortlessly weaves between nineteenth and twentieth centuries, white observations and black, to describe patterns of social interaction in Natchez in the workplace, education, politics, religion, and daily life. It was not, he discovers, false notions of biological differences reinforced by class and economic conflict that lay at the heart of the town's racial divide but rather the perception of a black/white cultural divergence -- in values in education, work, and family. White culture was deemed superior, a presumption manifested through a hierarchy of old-family elite and other white citizens. Since 1930, Natchez has developed a major tourist industry, downsized sharecropping, expanded its manufacturing sector, and participated in the struggles for civil rights, school desegregation, and black political empowerment. Yet the collective white perception of a mythic past has continued, reinforced through the sum of Natchez's public history -- social memory, school textbooks, breathtaking antebellum mansions, and world-famous Pilgrimage. In Race against Time, Davis sensitively lays bare the need for shared control of the town's history and the acknowledgment of intercultural dependence to effect true racial equality. Building upon the 1941 classic Deep South: A Social Anthropological Study of Caste and Class, Davis brings tremendous passion and insight to the demanding issue of race as he fathoms the contours of Natchez's distinctive racial dynamics in recent decades.
Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
Author: Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. MeetingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Alabama School Journal
Author: Proceedings
Author: Southern Association of Colleges and SchoolsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 724
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The Report of the President's Committee on Health Education
Author: United States President of the United StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Health education
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
The Report of the President's Committee on Health Education
Author: United States. President's Committee on Health EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Health education
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public WelfarePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor policy
Languages : en
Pages : 1526
Book Description
Proceedings, ... Annual Meeting
Author: Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (U.S.). MeetingsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description