The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
Adolph L. Reed, Jr.
Verso Books
The last generation of Americans with a living memory of Jim Crow will soon disappear. In The South, Reed takes up the urgent task of recounting the granular realities of life in the last decades of the Jim Crow South. Reed illuminates the multifaceted structures of the segregationist order. The South is more than a memoir or a history. Through Reed's personal history and political acumen, we see America’s apartheid system from the ground up, not just its legal framework or systems of power, but the way these systems structured the day-to-day interactions, lives, and ambitions of ordinary working people.