Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--New York University, 2011.

This is a resource on racism and segregation in American life. The book is chronologically organized into five sections, each of which focuses on a different hi

White supremacy shaped all aspects of post-Civil War southern life, yet its power was never complete or total. The form of segregation and subjection nicknamed

“A very powerful and unsettling story of our nation’s century-long ‘pogrom’ by vengeful white Southerners against their black neighbors.” —The Washi

Beginning in the 1830s and continuing for more than a century, blackface minstrelsy--stage performances that claimed to represent the culture of black Americans