"Our generation had nothing to do with discrimination" : white southern memory of Jim Crow and civil rights /

The ways in which white Americans understand the racial landscape and their own racial identities are not well understood. Through the lens of the racial past, in this study I investigate how memory operates within the white racial frame, the dominant white-centric worldview, to uphold systemic raci...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Lavelle, Kristen
Other Authors:	Feagin, Joe R. (Thesis advisor)
Format:	Thesis eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[College Station, Tex.] : [Texas A&M University], [2012]
Subjects:	Major Sociology. segregation white racism racial discourse Jim Crow white racial frame white Americans American South whiteness studies social memory racial identity white southerners racial memory moral identity Civil Rights Movement
Online Access:	Link to OAK Trust copy