A Long Dark Night: Race in America from Jim Crow to World War II

In A Long Dark Night: Race in America from Jim Crow to World War II, J. Michael Martinez attempts to provide a compelling synthesis of social, economic, and political actors and events that dominated American history from the end of the Civil War through World War II. Left out is any comprehensive d...

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Published in:Journal of Southern History 2017, Vol.83 (2), p.463-464
Main Author: Fitzgerald, Joseph R.
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
African Americans
Ideology
Politics
War
White supremacy
Women
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Summary:In A Long Dark Night: Race in America from Jim Crow to World War II, J. Michael Martinez attempts to provide a compelling synthesis of social, economic, and political actors and events that dominated American history from the end of the Civil War through World War II. Left out is any comprehensive discussion of the vast array of African American fraternal organizations, as well as the mutual aid and self-help organizations, that black men established in partnership with black women. On a related note, A Long Dark Night lacks a gender analysis of the white southern patriarchal culture that underpinned white men's rationale for "protecting" white women and how that tied into white supremacist ideology, and still does.
ISSN:0022-4642
2325-6893
DOI:10.1353/soh.2017.0138