Sider Race Becomes Tomorrow

North Carolina and the Shadow of Civil Rights
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7504-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten

Gerald M. Sider weaves together stories from his civil rights activism, his childhood, and his experiences as an anthropologist to investigate the dynamic ways race has been constructed and lived in America since the 1960s.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sider, Gerald M.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction. Past History 1

Part I. Stories

1. Did the Conk Rag Lose? 21

2. The Waters of Death and Life 47

3. Cockroach Racing 71

Part II. Culturing Words

4. Naming Troubles 91

5. State Making 117

6. F&N: Intimacy, Distance, Anger 137

Part III. Beyond

7. Living in the Beyond 145

8. "Out Here It's Dog Eat Dog and Vice Versa" 153

Part IV. Living Contradictions

9. Civil Society and Civil Rights on One Leg 175

10. "We Die in Harness. ": The Tomorrows of Vulnerable People 195

Appendix. Demographic Post-Civil Rights History of African American Towns in Robeson County 205

References 215

Index 219

Über Autor(innen)

Gerald M. Sider is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center and the College of Staten Island, City University of New York, and the author of Skin for Skin: Death and Life for Inuit and Innu, also published by Duke University Press.