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Basing their work on the lived experiences of African Americans, Thompson-Miller (Univ. of Dayton), Feagin (Texas A&M Univ.), and Picca (Univ. of Dayton) introduce readers to a compelling and emotional account of the realities and psychological outcomes for African Americans during the Jim Crow era. Positioned within the frame of systemic racism--"institutionalized structures of white-created racial oppression"--the authors address the important issues of voicing the experienced realities and coping strategies by African Americans during Jim Crow segregation; the long-term psychological, physical, and economic consequences for the survivors; and the intergenerational impact of these experiences. Using the concept of "segregation stress syndrome" to explain the collective psychological and physical outcomes of Jim Crow segregation, the authors give voice to the complexities of everyday life, from discrimination in travel, stores, and various other public spaces to rapes and murders of loved ones. Emotionally charged and intellectually stimulating, this book is must reading for anyone interested in racial relations. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries. --Iva Iancheva Katzarska-Miller, Transylvania University
Copyright American Library Association, used with permission.
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