ePub Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History (Multicultural Education Series) by James W. Loewen in History

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The color line; once all too solid in southern public life; still exists in the study of southern history. As distinguished historian Nell Irvin Painter notes; historians often still write about the South as though people of different races occupied entirely different spheres. In truth; although blacks and whites were expected to remain in their assigned places in the southern social hierarchy throughout the nineteenth and much of the twentieth century; their lives were thoroughly entangled. In this powerful collection; Painter reaches across the color line to examine how race; gender; class; and individual subjectivity shaped the lives of black and white women and men in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century South. Through six essays; she explores such themes as interracial sex; white supremacy; and the physical and psychological violence of slavery; using insights gleaned from psychology and feminist social science as well as social; cultural; and intellectual history. At once pioneering and reflective; the book illustrates both the breadth of Painter's interests and the originality of her intellectual contributions. It will inspire and guide a new generation of historians who take her goal of transcending the color bar as their own.