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9780299137847
"This is an anthropological study of black life in the town of Indianola, Mississippi, during the 1930s, the heyday of the Jim Crow system...There is a vast historiography of slavery, and also of the civil rights era, but curiously little on the black South during the ninety years in between. Powdermaker's is one of the best books on that subject."Powdermaker, Hortense is the author of 'After Freedom A Cultural Study in the Deep South', published 1993 under ISBN 9780299137847 and ISBN 0299137848.
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