Race in the American South: From Slavery to Civil Rights

[...] the South is extraordinary in the application of race and its corollary racism. ("[O]nly the South African apartheid regime was built on the same fundamental rationale of racial inequality as the American South," the authors point out [p. 1]). Race in the New South was recast as white supremacist ideology, sexualizing African American men as predators. Containing five maps, a chronology, and a bibliographic essay, this highly accessible book is a fine overview of the literature and will prove useful in courses on race relations, African America, and the South.