| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Mark Schultz. The Rural Face of White Supremacy: Beyond Jim Crow. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2005. Pp. xvi, 305. $42.00.

In After Freedom: A Cultural Study in the Deep South (1939), anthropologist Hortense Powdermaker wrote: "The arresting feature [of Southern race relations] is less the basic fact of segregation than the completeness and complexity of the interaction that takes place above it" (p. 14). Mark Schultz's richly textured portrait of race relations in early twentieth-century Hancock County, Georgia, offers new insights into the intimate and complex relationships that Powdermaker described. His ambitious study supplements documentary sources with more than 200 oral history interviews gathered over a sixteen-year period to explore interracial relationships in a planter-dominated, cotton-growing, piedmont region. Schultz makes no claims about the representative nature of Hancock County, although it was in some ways typical of cotton belt counties. Instead, Schultz makes an eloquent case for framing "all accounts of the South geographically and chronologically" (p. 8). He decries the tendency of some recent historians to homogenize the South, noting that such accounts might deliver scathing indictments of racial injustice but also serve to portray African Americans as impotent victims.

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