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The Strange Career of Jim Crow
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McFeely as mentioned in this paper presents a clear and illuminating analysis of the history of Jim Crow laws and American race relations, concluding that segregation in the South dated only to the 1880s.Abstract:
Strange Career offers a clear and illuminating analysis of the history of Jim Crow laws and American race relations. This book presented evidence that segregation in the South dated only to the 1880s. It's publication in 1955, a year after the Supreme Court ordered schools be desegregated, helped counter arguments that the ruling would destoy a centuries-old way of life. The commemorative edition includes a special afterword by William S. McFeely, former Woodward student and winner of both the 1982 Pulitzer Prize and 1992 Lincoln Prize. As William McFeely describes in the new afterword, 'the slim volume's social consequence far outstripped its importance to academia. The book became part of a revolution...The Civil Rights Movement had changed Woodward's South and his slim, quietly insistent book...had contributed to that change.'read more
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Badges of slavery : the struggle between civil rights and federalism during reconstruction.
TL;DR: Hahn Lierley as mentioned in this paper examined the United States Supreme Court interpretation of federalism, African American civil rights and the Fourteenth Amendment during Reconstruction and concluded that during Reconstruction, the federal government could not interfere with state governments' protection of civil rights.
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Class discord and racial order: economic interests and racial domination in South Africa and the United States
TL;DR: This paper argued that it was inter-and intra-class conflict that led to the construction of specific racial orders, building upon past prejudice, and that economic interests were neither uniform in their demands nor powerful enough to consistently determine differing racial orders.
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How to Create an Externality
TL;DR: This article found that simple typical examples tend to create simplistic views about various externalities, horror stories tend to invoke fight or flight responses, and seeking social approval may discourage opponents from expressing disagreement so that uninformed people will assume that a false externality is true.