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- catalog abstract ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12103947.
- catalog coverage "Natchez (Miss.) Race relations.".
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Culture and Separation -- Prologue: Going to Natchez -- History Lessons: Perpetuating Myths and Values -- Pilgrimage to the Past: Public History, Women, and the Racial Order -- The Harmonious Society: Jews, Gentiles, and Upper-Class Blacks -- "They Went Along with the Segregation Part of It": Industrialization -- The End of Social Harmony -- Civil Rights and Uncivil Responses -- The Hidden Curriculum: School Desegregation -- The Shadow of Jim Crow -- Epilogue: Leaving Natchez.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 351 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0807125857 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baton Rouge, LA : Louisiana State University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Mississippi Natchez".
- catalog spatial "Natchez (Miss.) Race relations.".
- catalog subject "305.896/073076226 21".
- catalog subject "African Americans Civil rights Mississippi Natchez History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "African Americans Segregation Mississippi Natchez History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Civil rights movements Mississippi Natchez History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "F349.N2 D37 2001".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Culture and Separation -- Prologue: Going to Natchez -- History Lessons: Perpetuating Myths and Values -- Pilgrimage to the Past: Public History, Women, and the Racial Order -- The Harmonious Society: Jews, Gentiles, and Upper-Class Blacks -- "They Went Along with the Segregation Part of It": Industrialization -- The End of Social Harmony -- Civil Rights and Uncivil Responses -- The Hidden Curriculum: School Desegregation -- The Shadow of Jim Crow -- Epilogue: Leaving Natchez.".
- catalog title "Race against time : culture and separation in Natchez since 1930 / Jack E. Davis.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".