Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC: Navigating the Politics of Everyday Life

2020 Submission

Jul 14

Written By Michelle Samplin-Salgado

A2_austin_coming of age.jpg — Paula Austin

NYU Press

Paula C. Austin's complex narrative of the everyday lives of Black young people in racially, spatially, economically, and politically restricted 1930s Washington, DC draws on previously unstudied archival material to present Black young people reckoning with boundaries imposed on them in a Jim Crow city that was also the American emblem of equality.

Read more at NYU Press

Theme: Law/PoliticsPublisher: NYU PressYear: 2020Author: Paula AustinTheme: Local/Regional HistoryTheme: Jim Crow/Segregation

Michelle Samplin-Salgado

Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power

From Boas to Black Power: Racism, Liberalism, and American Anthropology