{"product_id":"black-lives-white-lives-9780520386013","title":"Black Lives White Lives","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow with a new foreword, this timely reissuefeatures aremarkable collection of oral histories that trace three decades of turbulent race relations and social change in the United States for a new generation of activists. One evening in 1955, Howard Spence, a Mississippi field representative for the NAACP investigating the Emmett Till murder, was confronted by Klansmen who burned an eight-foot cross on his front lawn. I felt my life wasn't worth a penny with a hole in it. Twenty-four years later, Spence had become a respected pillar of that same Mississippi town, serving as its first Black alderman.  The story of Howard Spence is just one of the remarkable personal dramas recounted inBlack Lives, White Lives. Beginning in 1968, Bob Blauner and a team of interviewers recorded the words of those caught up in the crucible of rapid racial, social, and political change. Unlike most retrospective oral histories, these interviews capture the intense racial tension of 1968 in real time, as peop\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A compelling window into American race relations in the second half of the 20th century.  But more than that, thanks to Blauner’s vision and the skill of his team of researchers, the book has the feel of a sociological classic.\" * Society for US Intellectual History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Foreword by Gerald Early\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART ONE 1968\u003cbr\u003e Surviving the Sixties\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Integration or Black Power? The Great Debate\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  1. The Politics of Manhood and the Southern Black Experience\u003cbr\u003e     Florence Grier “My father was from Alabama”\u003cbr\u003e     Len Davis “Promised Land is just like the old plantation”\u003cbr\u003e     Howard Spence “I wouldn’t want to treat anybody like\u003cbr\u003e                                 I’ve been treated in Mississippi”\u003cbr\u003e                    \u003cbr\u003e 2. Whites on the Front Lines of Racial Conflict\u003cbr\u003e     Joe Rypins “Stokely Carmichael ain’t no better than me”\u003cbr\u003e     Gladys Hunt “You break your neck to do something,\u003cbr\u003e                           and they give you a hard time”\u003cbr\u003e     Joan Keres “Sometimes you wish you were black”\u003cbr\u003e     Virginia Lawrence “I was the wrong color in my black\u003cbr\u003e                                  man’s eyes”\u003cbr\u003e                        \u003cbr\u003e 3. Four Black Women and the Consciousness of the Sixties\u003cbr\u003e     Florence Grier “I’m tired of being scared”\u003cbr\u003e     Millie Harding “This is no dream world, baby”\u003cbr\u003e     Vera Brooke “Those that came from a different social\u003cbr\u003e                          experience I feared”\u003cbr\u003e     Elena Albert “Something happened in my childhood\u003cbr\u003e                          I’ve never forgotten”\u003cbr\u003e                   \u003cbr\u003e 4. White Backlash: The Fear of a Black Majority and Other Nightmares\u003cbr\u003e     Maude Wiley “They’re afraid the colored people\u003cbr\u003e                           are gonna move in and take over”\u003cbr\u003e     George Hendrickson “We’ve got the lowest, poorest type”\u003cbr\u003e     William Singer “We didn’t have a great sense of\u003cbr\u003e                              racial awareness”\u003cbr\u003e     Bill Harcliff “It’s just a strong apartheid on the street”\u003cbr\u003e     Diane Harcliff “The whole racial thing makes me burst\u003cbr\u003e                            with sadness”\u003cbr\u003e                     \u003cbr\u003e 5. Black Youth and the Ghetto Streets\u003cbr\u003e     Richard Simmons “White boys, they’re always innocent”\u003cbr\u003e     Larry Dillard “I would like to kill a white man, just to\u003cbr\u003e                          put it on the books”\u003cbr\u003e     Sarah Williams “The marching and demonstrations\u003cbr\u003e                                is stupid”\u003cbr\u003e     Harold Sampson “Denying you the right to be a man”\u003cbr\u003e     \u003cbr\u003e 6. The Paradox of Working-Class Racism\u003cbr\u003e     Lawrence Adams “They’ve got the right to have every\u003cbr\u003e                                   human dignity that I have”\u003cbr\u003e     Jim Corey “If I can help a colored man without hurting\u003cbr\u003e                       myself, I haven’t got anything to lose”\u003cbr\u003e     Dick Cunningham “My oldest daughter married a\u003cbr\u003e                                    black man”\u003cbr\u003e                      \u003cbr\u003e 7. Black Workers: New Options and Old Problems\u003cbr\u003e     Richard Holmes “The Negro don’t want to work”\u003cbr\u003e     Len Davis “The postal system has become a Negro-type job”\u003cbr\u003e     Mark Anthony Holder “Being a man is being part\u003cbr\u003e                            of the world”\u003cbr\u003e     Jim Pettit “These people had been treating me bad all\u003cbr\u003e                      my life, and I didn’t know it”\u003cbr\u003e     Frank Casey “They call me an instigator”\u003cbr\u003e     Carleta Reeves “I’d come home bitching and yelling”\u003cbr\u003e     Henry Smith “This was my means of retaliating”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART TWO 1978–1987\u003cbr\u003e Growing Older in the Seventies and Eighties\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    The Ambiguities of Racial Change\u003cbr\u003e    \u003cbr\u003e 8. “Still in the Struggle”: Black Activists Ten Years Later\u003cbr\u003e     Howard Spence “I’m going to protect this land”\u003cbr\u003e     Millie Harding “Dealing with the human issues”\u003cbr\u003e     Florence Grier “I haven’t changed that much”\u003cbr\u003e     \u003cbr\u003e 9. White Lives and the Limits of Integration\u003cbr\u003e     George Hendrickson “The man is a damn fool who\u003cbr\u003e                                        won’t change his mind”\u003cbr\u003e     Maude Wiley “That was such a strong time of change”\u003cbr\u003e     Virginia Lawrence “The world changed exactly the way\u003cbr\u003e                                    I was going”\u003cbr\u003e     William Singer “We’ve turned life itself into a quota\u003cbr\u003e                              business”\u003cbr\u003e     Bill Harcliff “What I really do is live in a white\u003cbr\u003e                        neighborhood”\u003cbr\u003e                    \u003cbr\u003e 10. Black Youth: The Worsening Crisis\u003cbr\u003e     Richard Simmons “The American black man is a\u003cbr\u003e                                   dying species”\u003cbr\u003e     Larry Dillard “Without [the Black Panthers], my\u003cbr\u003e                          generation would be a different generation”\u003cbr\u003e     Sarah Williams “I had him and everything just changed”\u003cbr\u003e     Jim Pettit “Two counts against me: I’m black and I’m gay”\u003cbr\u003e     \u003cbr\u003e 11. Blue-Collar Men in a Tight Economy\u003cbr\u003e     Jim Corey “He’s just a boy, Daddy”\u003cbr\u003e     Dick Cunningham “Even Walnut Creek, it’s integrating”\u003cbr\u003e     Lawrence Adams “The federal government and AT\u0026amp;T\u003cbr\u003e                                   screwed up”\u003cbr\u003e     Joe Rypins “Smelling like a rose”\u003cbr\u003e     Mark Anthony Holder “Peoples of forty, they’re no longer\u003cbr\u003e                                         thinking about a race thing”\u003cbr\u003e                          \u003cbr\u003e 12. Men, Women, and Opportunity\u003cbr\u003e     Harold Sampson “I have not been able to achieve selfhood\u003cbr\u003e                                  through the civil rights movement”\u003cbr\u003e     Frank Casey “If they had gave me the green light”\u003cbr\u003e     Carleta Reeves “To grow and develop with the times”\u003cbr\u003e     Henry Smith “If I were a white guy . . .”\u003cbr\u003e     \u003cbr\u003e 13. Keeping the Spirit of the Sixties Alive\u003cbr\u003e     Vera Brooke “The caring factor”\u003cbr\u003e     Joan Keres “The way that you view humanity and\u003cbr\u003e                          the earth, those are the main things”\u003cbr\u003e     Len Davis “My whole damn culture’s gone”\u003cbr\u003e     Elena Albert “I as an individual will continue to resist”\u003cbr\u003e     \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: Methodology\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliographic Essay","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402958676311,"sku":"9780520386013","price":18.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520386013.jpg?v=1730481965","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/black-lives-white-lives-9780520386013","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}