{"product_id":"deep-south-a-social-anthropological-study-of-caste-and-class-paperback","title":"Deep South: A Social Anthropological Study of Caste and Class - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAllison Davis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBurleigh B. Gardner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMary R. Gardner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA classic examination of the lived realities of American racism, now with a new foreword from Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e First published in 1941, \u003ci\u003eDeep South \u003c\/i\u003eis a landmark work of anthropology, documenting in startling and nuanced detail the everyday realities of American racism. Living undercover in Depression-era Mississippi--not revealing their scholarly project or even their association with one another--groundbreaking Black scholar Allison Davis and his White co-authors, Burleigh and Mary Gardner, delivered an unprecedented examination of how race shaped nearly every aspect of twentieth-century life in the United States. Their analysis notably revealed the importance of caste and class to Black and White worldviews, and they anatomized the many ways those views are constructed, solidified, and reinforced. \u003cbr\u003e ​ \u003cbr\u003e This reissue of the 1965 abridged edition, with a new foreword from Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson--who acknowledges the book's profound importance to her own work\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003eproves that \u003ci\u003eDeep South \u003c\/i\u003eremains as relevant as ever, a crucial work on the concept of caste and how it continues to inform the myriad varieties of American inequality. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAllison Davis \u003c\/b\u003e(1902-1983) was a pioneering anthropologist and longtime professor at the University of Chicago, where, in 1942, he became the first Black American to hold a full faculty position at a major white university. \u003cb\u003eBurleigh B. Gardner \u003c\/b\u003e(1902-1988) and \u003cb\u003eMary R. Gardner \u003c\/b\u003e(1909-1983) were Harvard-trained social scientists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 328\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 03, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52766029906227,"sku":"9780226817989","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/U1N5VCtCb2lDd05YWGdodFhaK2dCQT09.webp?v=1764638289","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/deep-south-a-social-anthropological-study-of-caste-and-class-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}