Whitewashing the South : white memories of segregation and civil rights / Kristen M. Lavelle.

Author/creator Lavelle, Kristen M., 1979-
Format Book
PublicationLanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]
Descriptionviii, 229 pages ; 23 cm.
Subjects
Segregation--Southern States. --History. --20th century.
White people--Southern States. --History. --20th century.
Collective memory--Southern States. --History. --20th century.
Civil rights movements--Southern States. --History. --20th century.
Southern States--Race relations. --History. --20th century.

SeriesPerspectives on a multiracial America series
Perspectives on a multiracial America series. ^A701099
Contents Our generation had nothing to do with discrimination -- Only love under our roof : jim crow at home -- Just the way it was : jim crow in public -- Distancing and rejection: the civil rights movement at arm's length -- White victims : trials and tribulations of school desegregation -- Reflecting on a lifetime : views of the post-civil rights era -- Memory and white moral identity.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2014034399
ISBN9781442232792 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN144223279X (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9781442239258 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN1442239255 (pbk. : alk. paper)