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Deep South: A Social Anthropological Study of Caste and Class

1941 · 016241 — Chicago Illinois: The University of Chicago Press 1941. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition 1941. Sienna cloth boards stamped in dark brown. Ink splatter on the fore-edge of the textblock else volume is clean; interior is unmarked. Dust jacket shows shallow chipping at head of spine; some creasing to the bottom of the front panel; moderate edgewear; price clipped; in an archival mylar sleeve. Index. xv 558 pages. A scarce jacketed copy of the first printing of October 1941 of this classic work on race relations in the Jim Crow South. The social anthropologists Allison Davis and his wife Elizabeth Burleigh B. Gardner Mary R. Gardner and J. G. St. Clair Drake lived among the people of Natchez Mississippi as well-trained participant-observers investigating how class and caste informed daily life in a typical southern community. From the front flap: ''They saw the restrictions imposed upon the Negroes the patterns of case deference the constantly subordinate role At the same time they saw what this means to the individual Negro: hos problems of adjustment his anxieties and frustrations his reveries of rebellion or escape. Illustrated with dramatic interview-material the book reveals the behavior patterns sentiments and strivings of the climbers of the ''democratic ladder'' -- from the top the bottom. Here are the ''poor-but-respectables the lower middles the ancestor-worshiping ''old families'' the upper uppers the new status-proud Negro upper class the ''poor whites'' and the ''common'' or folk Negroes. The University of Chicago Press hardcover