Deep South: A Social Study of Caste and Class 1941 First Edition, Scarce 1st Printing Jim Crow Race Relations African American Allison Davis

Title: Deep South: A Social Anthropological Study of Caste and Class
Author: Written by Allison Davis, Burleigh B. Gardner and Mary R. Gardener / Directed by W. Lloyd Warner
Publication: Chicago, Illinois: The University of Chicago Press, 1941

Description: First Edition, 1941. Sienna cloth boards stamped in dark brown. Ink splatter on the fore-edge of the textblock, else volume is clean; interior is unmarked. Dust jacket shows shallow chipping at head of spine; some creasing to the bottom of the front panel; moderate edgewear; price clipped; in an archival mylar sleeve. Index. xv + 558 pages.

A scarce, jacketed copy of the first printing of October 1941, of this classic work on race relations in the Jim Crow South. The social anthropologists Allison Davis (and his wife Elizabeth), Burleigh B. Gardner, Mary R. Gardner, and J. G. St. Clair Drake, lived among the people of Natchez, Mississippi, as well-trained participant-observers, investigating how class and caste informed daily life in a typical southern community.

From the front flap: "They saw the restrictions imposed upon the Negroes, the patterns of case deference, the constantly subordinate role, At the same time they saw what this means to the individual Negro: hos problems of adjustment, his anxieties and frustrations, his reveries of rebellion or escape.

Illustrated with dramatic interview-material, the book reveals the behavior patterns, sentiments, and strivings of the climbers of the ''democratic ladder'' -- from the top the bottom. Here are the ''poor-but-respectables (the lower middles), the ancestor-worshiping ''old families'' (the upper uppers), the new status-proud Negro upper class, the ''poor whites,'' and the ''common'' or folk Negroes."

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good

Keywords: sociology, social anthropology, African American, Jim Crow, United States, race relations, social inequality, economic inequality, Natchez, Mississippi, St. Clair Drake,