A White Memoir of the American Apartheid: Lest We Forget

Abstract

This memoir records my experiences with, observations of, and reflections upon the racial segregation that prevailed as I was growing up white in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in the 1950s and 1960s. As part of the last generation to remember the Jim Crow South, I offer these verbal snapshots of the last days of de jure racial segregation – an exercise in retrospective symbolic interactionism.

Citation

Clanton, G. (2019), "A White Memoir of the American Apartheid: Lest We Forget", The Interaction Order (Studies in Symbolic Interaction, Vol. 50), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 171-180. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0163-239620190000050008