{"product_id":"hattiesburg-an-american-city-in-black-and-white-9780674248274","title":"Hattiesburg: An American City in Black and White","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the \u003ci\u003eZ calo Public Square\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize\u003cbr\u003eBenjamin L. Hooks Award Finalist\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An insightful, powerful, and moving book.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Kevin Boyle, author of \u003ci\u003eArc of Justice\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Sturkey's clear-eyed and meticulous book pulls off a delicate balancing act. While depicting the terrors of Jim Crow, he also shows how Hattiesburg's black residents, forced to forge their own communal institutions, laid the organizational groundwork for the civil rights movement.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIf you really want to understand Jim Crow--what it was and how African Americans rose up to defeat it--you should start by visiting Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, the heart of the historic black downtown. There you can still see remnants of the shops and churches where, amid the violence and humiliation of segregation, men and women gathered to build a remarkable community. \u003ci\u003eHattiesburg\u003c\/i\u003e takes us into the heart of this divided town and deep into the lives of families on both sides of the racial divide to show how the fabric of their existence was shaped by the changing fortunes of the Jim Crow South. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Sturkey's magnificent portrait reminds us that Mississippi is no anachronism. It is the dark heart of American modernity.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Robin D. G. Kelley, author of \u003ci\u003eThelonious Monk\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"When they are at their best, historians craft powerful, compelling, often genre-changing pieces of history...William Sturkey is one of those historians...A brilliant, poignant work.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Charles W. McKinney, Jr., \u003ci\u003eJournal of African American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSturkey, William:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - William Sturkey is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he teaches courses on African American history and the history of the American South. His previous book was \u003ci\u003eTo Write in the Light of Freedom, \u003c\/i\u003ecoedited with Jon Hale.\u003ci\u003e Hattiesburg \u003c\/i\u003ewon the 2020 Zócalo Book Prize.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Belknap Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50681978126610,"sku":"9780674248274","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_eb0e142e-ca82-4968-9ca2-c8bec337d31b.jpg?v=1733961408","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/hattiesburg-an-american-city-in-black-and-white-9780674248274","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}