The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South since Emancipation
The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South since Emancipation
#2434 of 3,809 books · #806 in History
Shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize for History (1985).
This landmark work provides a fundamental reinterpretation of the American South in the years since the Civil War, especially the decades after Reconstruction, from 1877 to 1920. Covering all aspects of Southern life--white and black, conservative and progressive, literary and political--it offers a new understanding of the forces that shaped the South of today.
- ISBN-13
- 9780195033823
- Genre
- Topics
- Race relations in the American SouthReconstruction and post-Reconstruction eraRacial ideology and segregation
Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for HistoryShortlistedMajor(1985)
Other awarded books from Joel Williamson
- William Faulkner and Southern History (1995)0 wins · 4 score
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