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Deep south : a social anthropological study of caste and class / Allison Davis, Burleigh B. Gardner, Mary R. Gardner

Davis, Allison, 1902-1983 [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Gardner, Burleigh B., 1902- [Verfasserin/Verfasser] ; Gardner, Mary R. [Verfasserin/Verfasser] ; Wilkerson, Isabel, 1961- [Verfass. eines Geleitwortes] ; Warner, William Lloyd [Verfass. einer Einleitung]

Enlarged second edition / with a new foreword by Isabel Wilkerson

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press [2022], 2022

xxvi, 286 Seiten

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-0-226-81798-9 (paperback)

978-0-226-81799-6 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)

2021057700

OCoLC: 1346092016     

HD 375      Ähnliche Literatur

HN79.A2

305.5/12208996073075

Basisklassifikation: 71.12 (Soziale Stratifikation; soziale Mobilität)

*USA / Südstaaten ; Wirtschaftliche Lage      Zum Register

*USA / Südstaaten ; Soziale Klasse      Zum Register

*USA / Südstaaten ; Schwarze      Zum Register

*USA / Südstaaten ; Soziale Situation      Zum Register

LOC-SH: African Americans -- Southern States ; Social classes -- Southern States ; Southern States -- Social conditions ; Southern States -- Economic conditions

Foreword / Isabel Wilkerson -- Preface -- Part I. Deep south : a social anthropological study of caste and class / W. Lloyd Warner -- The system of color-castes -- The class system of the white caste -- The white upper-class family -- The white middle-class family -- The white lower-class family -- Social cliques in the white society -- Social mobility within the white caste -- The class system fo the colored caste -- Part II. Intimidation of labor -- The plantation in the social setting -- Relation between the caste system and the economic system -- Caste, class, and local government : white power -- Retrospect, 1965 : power and caste -- Afterword, 1986.

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"Deep South was originally published in 1941, documenting in startling detail the nuances, character, and lived realities of racism in a southern town. Allison Davis and his co-authors, Burleigh and Mary Gardner, all went undercover, not revealing their scholarly project or even their association with one another. Their analysis notably revealed the importance of caste and class to both Black and White worldviews, and it anatomized how those are constructed, reified, and reinforced. Deep South is freshly relevant today to those interested in the concept of caste and how it continues to inform the many flavors of American inequality"--