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    Default Great book: The White Savage: Racial Fantasies in the Postbellum South

    Baldwin's question is therefore particularly applicable to life below the Mason-Dixon line. Yet most historians of the post-Civil War South have been so preoccupied with the issues of segregation and integration that they have slighted the Southern search for Negro servility. Professor C. Vann Woodward is a case in point. Early in the fall of 1954, soon after the United States Supreme Court issued its landmark school desegregation decision (Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka), he delivered the James W. Richard Lectures at the University of Virginia. Published as The Strange Career of Jim Crow, these lectures reflected contemporary anxiety over the future of interracial . . .


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    “If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.”

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    Quote Originally Posted by guno View Post
    Baldwin's question is therefore particularly applicable to life below the Mason-Dixon line. Yet most historians of the post-Civil War South have been so preoccupied with the issues of segregation and integration that they have slighted the Southern search for Negro servility. Professor C. Vann Woodward is a case in point. Early in the fall of 1954, soon after the United States Supreme Court issued its landmark school desegregation decision (Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka), he delivered the James W. Richard Lectures at the University of Virginia. Published as The Strange Career of Jim Crow, these lectures reflected contemporary anxiety over the future of interracial . . .


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    (((Lawrence J. Friedman))), eh?

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    “If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.”

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    Guno is on, "the spectrum."

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