Growing Up Jim Crow: The Racial Socialization of Black and White Southern Children, 1890-1940
In the segregated South of the early twentieth century, unwritten rules guided every aspect of individual behavior, from how blacks and whites stood, sat, ate, drank, walked, and talked to whether they made eye contact with one another. Jennifer Ritterhouse asks how children learned this racial "etiquette," which was sustained by coercion and the threat of violence. More broadly, she asks how individuals developed racial self-consciousness.\ Parental instruction was an important factor—both...
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Ritterhouse asks how southern black and white children in the early 20th century learned the unwritten rules that guided every aspect of individual behavior, from how blacks and whites stood, sat, ate, drank, walked, and talked to whether they made eye contact with one another. More broadly, she asks how individuals developed racial self-consciousness. Exploring relationships between public and private and between segregation, racial etiquette, and racial violence, Ritterhouse sheds new light on tradition and change in the South and the meanings of segregation within southern culture.
\ From the Publisher"A substantial contribution to the burgeoning field of child identity development in the segregated US South."\ — African American Review\ "Provides readers . . . with a guide for rooting out the vestiges of Jim Crow that persist today."\ — Southern Cultures\ "Sheds new light on questions of change and continuity in the South."\ — Carolina Country\ \ \
