Southern History across the Color Line

Nell Irvin Painter's book explores how race, gender, class, and individual subjectivity shaped the lives of black and white women and men in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century South, using insights from psychology and feminist social science. It illustrates the breadth of Painter's interests and the originality of her intellectual contributions.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 262 pages
\n Publication date: 30 April 2021
\n Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
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The color line, a once-pervasive feature of southern public life, persists in the study of southern history. As noted by distinguished historian Nell Irvin Painter, we often perpetuate the notion that people of different races inhabit entirely separate spheres within the South. However, the reality is more complex. While blacks and whites were expected to remain in their assigned positions in the southern social hierarchy for much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, their lives were intricately intertwined.

In this groundbreaking collection of essays, Painter crosses the color line to explore how race, gender, class, and individual subjectivity shaped the lives of black and white women and men in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century South. She delves into themes such as interracial sex, white supremacy, and the physical and psychological violence of slavery, drawing upon insights from psychology, feminist social science, social, cultural, and intellectual history. The book showcases the breadth of Painter's interests and the originality of her intellectual contributions. This edition includes refreshed essays and a new preface that sheds light on the development of Painter's thought and our ongoing struggles with racism in the twenty-first century.

The color line, a once-pervasive feature of southern public life, persists in the study of southern history. As noted by distinguished historian Nell Irvin Painter, we often perpetuate the notion that people of different races inhabit entirely separate spheres within the South. However, the reality is more complex. While blacks and whites were expected to remain in their assigned positions in the southern social hierarchy for much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, their lives were intricately intertwined.

In this groundbreaking collection of essays, Painter crosses the color line to explore how race, gender, class, and individual subjectivity shaped the lives of black and white women and men in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century South. She delves into themes such as interracial sex, white supremacy, and the physical and psychological violence of slavery, drawing upon insights from psychology, feminist social science, social, cultural, and intellectual history. The book showcases the breadth of Painter's interests and the originality of her intellectual contributions. This edition includes refreshed essays and a new preface that sheds light on the development of Painter's thought and our ongoing struggles with racism in the twenty-first century.

\n Weight: 422g\n
Dimension: 155 x 234 x 19 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781469663760\n
Edition number: 2 Revised edition\n