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Earlier generations of white parents had explained racial boundaries as a matter of course, and I was already aware, without being able to articulate it, that the black people in my life had entirely different roles from the white people. If unquestioned devotion to discrimination was a central them...

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Published in:Southern cultures 2008-09, Vol.14 (3), p.1-5
Main Author: WATSON, HARRY
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Civil rights movements
Oral history
Parents & parenting
Segregation
Theme
Truth
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Summary:Earlier generations of white parents had explained racial boundaries as a matter of course, and I was already aware, without being able to articulate it, that the black people in my life had entirely different roles from the white people. If unquestioned devotion to discrimination was a central theme of white southern history before the Movement, the tortured, partial suspension of it has been central ever since.\n Cunningham has more hope for the path taken by a Truth and Reconciliation Commission that assembled in Greensboro, North Carolina, when criminal trials failed to resolve the bitterness and unanswered questions left by the 1979 murder of five radical demonstrators. In our "South Polls," Southern Cultures editor Larry Griffin and fellow sociologist Peggy G. Hargis attempt to assess the effects of the Civil Rights Movement by gauging just how much the white South has really changed.
ISSN:1068-8218
1534-1488
1534-1488
DOI:10.1353/scu.0.0014