Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
2015
Abstract
In The Jim Crow Routine, historian Stephen Berrey brings fresh eyes to the intricate set of legal rules that maintained racial segregation in the American South. Building on works like Leon Litwack’s Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow and Neil R. McMillen’s Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow, Berrey focuses not on the rise or demise of Jim Crow so much as the manner in which it disciplined daily life. For average folks, argues Berrey, Jim Crow turned the South into a stage where whites and blacks learned to negotiate one another’s presence on the street, in stores, at the post office, and at work – according to elaborate, albeit unwritten, scripts.
Recommended Citation
Walker, Anders. Jim Crow's Unwritten Code. Book review, [author, Steven A. Berrey]. The Jim Crow Routine: Everyday Performances of Race, Civil Rights, and Segregation in Mississippi. Legal History JOTWELL (The Journal of Things We Like), (2015).