A Rage for Order: Black-White Relations in the American South Since Emancipation

by Joel Williamson

Book Overview

The Crucible of Race, a major reinterpretation of black-white relations in the South, was widely acclaimed on publication and compared favorably to two of the seminal books on Southern history: Wilbur J. Cash's The Mind of the South and C. Vann Woodward's The Strange Career of Jim Crow. Representing 20 years of research and writing on the history of the South, The Crucible of Race explores the large topic of Southern race relations for a span of a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195040252
• ISBN13: 9780195040258
• Release Date: May 1986
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

An uncomfortbale subject

Williamson has written masterfully about the difficult subject of how white Southerners treated emancipated blacks. The Jim Crow laws were the closest things that the whites could get to slavery.