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Article: Managing White Supremacy: Race, Politics, and Citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia.(Book Review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- February 1, 2004
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By J. Douglas Smith. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. xiv, 411. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5424-7; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8078-2756-8.)
As the nation struggles today with the lingering effects of racism, everyone (especially opponents of affirmative action) needs to be reminded of the history of Jim Crow--the vicious mechanism of racial segregation that denied African Americans equal opportunity in this society. J. Douglas Smith's Managing White Supremacy superbly recounts the efforts of white Virginians to maintain the system of "separate but equal" in the years between the world wars, despite differences over the ...