Race against time
Subtitle: culture and separation in Natchez since 1930
By: Jack E. Davis.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
Subjects: African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- Natchez -- History -- 20th century; African Americans -- Segregation -- Mississippi -- Natchez -- History -- 20th century; Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- Natchez -- History -- 20th century; Natchez (Miss.) -- Race relations
Description: "While many studies of race relations have focused on the black experience, Race against Time strives to unravel the emotional and cultural foundations of race in the white mind. Jack E. Davis combed primary documents in Natchez, Mississippi, and absorbed the town's oral history to understand white racial attitudes there over the past seven decades, a period rich in social change, strife, and reconciliation.

What he found in this community that cultivates for profit a romantic view of the Old South challenges conventional assumptions about racial prejudice."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.