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When The North Is The South: Life In The Netherlands, Edward L. Ayers
When The North Is The South: Life In The Netherlands, Edward L. Ayers
History Faculty Publications
After years of watching colleagues fly to Paris, Johannesburg, Beijing, or Bogota for research trips and speaking engagements, I decided to apply for a posting abroad. Holding only the vaguest and most stereotyped visions, I chose the Netherlands. My application stressed, perhaps impolitely, the direct Dutch involvement in the slave trade and their indirect connection to South African apartheid. Such commonalities with white southerners, I suggested, might serve as the basis for interesting discussions of race and region.
The Birth Of Jim Crow (Book Review), Edward L. Ayers
The Birth Of Jim Crow (Book Review), Edward L. Ayers
History Faculty Publications
Review of the book, The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South since Emancipation by Joel Williamson. New York: Oxford University Press,1984.
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