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...John Hammond Moore Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 Jim Crow in Georgia John Hammond Moore In the latest edition of his penetrating and influential study of race relations, The Strange Career of Jim Crow (New York, 1966), C. Vann Woodward has words of caution concerning...

...John Hope Franklin Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 JIM CROW GOES TO SCHOOL: THE GENESIS OF LEGAL SEGREGATION IN SOUTHERN SCHOOLS John Hope Franklin A SURVEY of the history of the United States in the nineteenth century gives one the distinct impression that Jim Crow...

...Allen W. Trelease The Triumph of Jim Crow: Tennessee Race Relations in the 1880’s . By Cartwright Joseph H. . Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press , 1976 . Pp. xiii , 286 . Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 Book Reviews 261 The Triumph of Jim Crow...

...Linda M. Matthews Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 Keeping Down Jim Crow: The Railroads and the Separate Coach Bills in South Carolina Linda M. Matthews South Carolina passed its first Jim Crow railroad car bill in 1898, thus beginning a long era of strict racial segregation...

...Hugh Davis Graham Journey from Jim Crow: The Desegregation of Southern Transit . By Barnes Catherine A. . New York : Columbia University Press , 1983 . Pp. xi , 313 . $28.00 . Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 Book Reviews 107 Journey from Jim Crow...

...Jim Hosney; Jacquelyn Wollman; Jesse Ward Engdahl Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 Jim Hosney, Jacquelyn Wollman, and Jesse Ward Engdahl The Passion of St. Charles: Martin Scorsese s Mean Streets Note. The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God...

...Jim F. Heath Crime of the Century: The Kennedy Assassination from a Historian’s Perspective . By Kurtz Michael L. . Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press , 1982 . Pp. viii , 291 . $17.50 . Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 222 The South Atlantic Quarterly...

...Jim Shepard Duke University Press 2006 Jim Shepard They Killed Our Grandfathers and Our Fathers and Now the Sonsabitches Are Coming for Us There are fans and then there are ‘‘real fans the sort of people who are angry with their children...

...–Jim Crow campaign—who relied heavily on the international community for success. © 2010 Duke University Press 2010 A G A I N S T the D A Y Gerald Horne What’s Going On? What Is to Be Done? ​Nowadays, there is considerable hand-wringing and wheezing about the real and imagined...

...Rebecka Rutledge Fisher This essay discusses what W. E. B. Du Bois, in Black Reconstruction in America, 1860–1880 , sees as the possibilities of black being, even as this being is conditioned by the constrictive and problematic interstitial sites of postbellum, Jim Crow existence that Du Bois names...

..., whose iconography has been adapted to different, and sometimes conflicting, political agendas over five decades, from a talisman of “joy-mad” race consolidation against Jim Crow in the mid-1930s to a totem for color-blind racial transcendence in the post–civil rights moment of the mid-1980s. Asking how...

... specifically, I examine how imperative time constrains black mobility and comportment. I study Misha Green’s television series Lovecraft Country (2020) and James Alan McPherson’s essay “The Express” (2003) for their restagings of how Jim Crow imperatives continue to govern black movement beyond the time...

... Jim came down the road on the way home from the creek. Jim had a tale to tell about a fish he had caught; and had the fish, a bass that must have weighed all of ten pounds. Jim told how the scound l had struck a bait of raw beef (that had been dropped in for catfish) and ca ied the line under...

... integrity and goodness. But rooted firmly in the real world, Nimmo can make no such claim. He is morally accountable the way they are not, a fact which in itself suggests much about the change in Cary s vision. The task of moral accounting is a difficult one for everyone, that is, except Jim Latter...

... Is Jim? The whole business of government, especially the unpleasant detail of taxes, is, to a plantation Negro, a dark and mysterious affair. It s just one of those things that white men invent to take the joy out of life. At least once a week, at any time of the year, a Negro will come to me...

... they seemed to resemble or were influenced by or were openly based on. Jules and Jim and Barry Lyndon, two other fdmic fdms (in the sense of painterly paintings ) but in significantly different ways from New York, New York, were also received with the same sort of challenge and doubt that should have served...

... to the cause, his protégé is able to pick up the torch. Individual leaders and battles may be lost but the fight always goes on. With Mac and Jim, the two union organizers in In Dubious Battle, Steinbeck is less inter- ested...

.... In the thirty-first chapter of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck is seen sitting on a raft floating down the Mississippi River wondering what to do about the runaway slave, Jim, the property of the poor widow Watson. Huck Finn was a specimen of southern poor white trash, a river rat. But on the raft...

.... When he described Malays as like well-behaved children and Papuans as a mop-headed, sooty crowd with black bodies and frizzly heads, he was working in bits of Wallace s phrases. In Lord Jim Conrad modeled the country life of Stein on that of Wallace s friend, Mr. Mesman. A compar­ ison of the two...

... such a team after the war, but he did so for a number of years, sink­ ing more hopelessly into the slough of debt, all the time. We children used to run to the gate to watch the swanky Knox team go by. Long Jim McColor was the teamster, the last of the rollicking, care-free masters of the whip who...