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RR 2015/196 Jim Crow: A Historical Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic Edited by Nikki L.M. Brown and Barry M. Stentiford Greenwood Press, an imprint of ABC-Clio Santa Barbara, CA 2014 ISBN 978 1 61069 664 7 URL: www.abc-clio.com/ABC-CLIOCorporate/product.aspx?pc=A4331C Last visited March 2015 Contact publisher for pricing information Also available in print (xxxv + 473 pp. ISBN 978 1 61069 663 0 £63 $100)
Keywords History, Race relations, United States of America
Review DOI 10.1108/RR-03-2015-0071
Jim Crow describes the period of US history from the failure of Reconstruction following the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s. Following the emancipation of African Americans, southern states took advantage of the federal government's lassiez-faire approach to enforcing equality by codifying discriminatory laws that made it difficult, often impossible, for African Americans to vote, obtain employment, buy homes and live without constantly fearing being arrested or lynched for manufactured charges. This state of "separate but equal" - which was always more of the former than the latter - has continued to affect and inform the lives of African Americans into the twenty-first century.
This work is the second team-up of editors Drs Nikki L.M. Brown and Barry M. Stentiford. They previously worked on The Jim Crow Encyclopedia, a two-volume set also published by Greenwood (Brown and Stentiford, 2008) (RR 2009/159). This new resource is less a second edition than a reimagining, however, as it finds its page count reduced from 952 pages to a 471-page single volume. Additionally, the new subtitle A Historical Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic suggests its new role is to support Greenwood's new four volume offering The Great American Mosaic, an...