The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives

The last generation of Americans with a living memory of Jim Crow will soon disappear. They leave behind a collective memory of segregation shaped increasingly by its horrors and heroic defeat but not a nuanced understanding of everyday life in Jim Crow America. In The South, Adolph L. Reed Jr.-New Orleanian, political scientist, and according to Cornel West, "the greatest democratic theorist of his generation"-takes up the urgent task of recounting the granular realities of life in the las...