Description: "The color line, once all too solid in southern public life, still exists in the study of southern history. As distinguished historian Nell Irvin Painter notes, we often still write about the South as though people of different races occupied entirely different spheres. In truth, although blacks and whites were expected to remain in their assigned places in the southern social hierarchy throughout the nineteenth century and much of the twentieth century, their lives were thoroughly entangled. This edition features refreshed essays and a new preface that sheds light on the development of Painter's thought and our continued struggles with racism in the twenty-first century"--
Brief description:
Nell Irvin Painter is the Edwards Professor of American History Emerita at Princeton University and Madame Chairman of the MacDowell artists' residency. She is author or editor of ten books, including The History of White People, Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over, and Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol.
Review Quotes:
"One cannot help but applaud the appearance of this collection, which provides a fine introduction to the ideas of an important scholar." -- Journal of Southern History