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Deep south : a social anthropological study of caste and class / Allison Davis, Burleigh B. Gardner, Mary R. Gardner.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2022Edition: Enlarged second edition / with a new foreword by Isabel WilkersonDescription: xxiii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780226817989
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.512208996073075 DAV 23 022615
LOC classification:
  • HN79.A2 D3 2022
Contents:
Foreword / Isabel Wilkerson -- Preface -- Part I. Deep south : a social anthropological study of caste and class / W. Lloyd Warner -- The system of color-castes -- The class system of the white caste -- The white upper-class family -- The white middle-class family -- The white lower-class family -- Social cliques in the white society -- Social mobility within the white caste -- The class system fo the colored caste -- Part II. Intimidation of labor -- The plantation in the social setting -- Relation between the caste system and the economic system -- Caste, class, and local government : white power -- Retrospect, 1965 : power and caste -- Afterword, 1986.
Summary: "Deep South was originally published in 1941, documenting in startling detail the nuances, character, and lived realities of racism in a southern town. Allison Davis and his co-authors, Burleigh and Mary Gardner, all went undercover, not revealing their scholarly project or even their association with one another. Their analysis notably revealed the importance of caste and class to both Black and White worldviews, and it anatomized how those are constructed, reified, and reinforced. Deep South is freshly relevant today to those interested in the concept of caste and how it continues to inform the many flavors of American inequality"--
List(s) this item appears in: New Collections - January 2025 | Writings of Resistance
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Book Book Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore 305.512208996073075 DAV 022615 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 022615

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Isabel Wilkerson -- Preface -- Part I. Deep south : a social anthropological study of caste and class / W. Lloyd Warner -- The system of color-castes -- The class system of the white caste -- The white upper-class family -- The white middle-class family -- The white lower-class family -- Social cliques in the white society -- Social mobility within the white caste -- The class system fo the colored caste -- Part II. Intimidation of labor -- The plantation in the social setting -- Relation between the caste system and the economic system -- Caste, class, and local government : white power -- Retrospect, 1965 : power and caste -- Afterword, 1986.

"Deep South was originally published in 1941, documenting in startling detail the nuances, character, and lived realities of racism in a southern town. Allison Davis and his co-authors, Burleigh and Mary Gardner, all went undercover, not revealing their scholarly project or even their association with one another. Their analysis notably revealed the importance of caste and class to both Black and White worldviews, and it anatomized how those are constructed, reified, and reinforced. Deep South is freshly relevant today to those interested in the concept of caste and how it continues to inform the many flavors of American inequality"--

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