Whitewashing the South: White Memories of Segregation and Civil Rights - Paperback

by Kristen M. Lavelle (Author)

Whitewashing the South is a powerful exploration of how ordinary white southerners recall living through extraordinary racial times--Jim Crow, civil rights, and post-civil rights. Drawing on interviews with the oldest living generation of white southerners, the book uncovers uncomfortable racial realities of the past and present.

Author Biography

Kristen Lavelle is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. She has published in the journal Ethnic and Racial Studies and is a contributor to the Encyclopedia of Race and Racism and International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences.