Reviewed by Cherisse Jones-Branch | Reviews | Journal of American Ethnic History, 27.4

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Battling the Plantation Mentality: Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle. By Laurie B. Green. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. 415 pp. Maps, photos, notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

In Battling the Plantation Mentality, Laurie B. Green provides a new analysis of the black freedom movement in Memphis, Tennessee. Her monograph focuses on working-class African Americans who chose to fight the ravages of the "plantation mentality" that followed them as they migrated out of rural Arkansas and Mississippi to Memphis. Green highlights blacks' determination to relieve themselves of the ever-present humiliation they endured due to their class, race, and (in the case of black women), gender. Her use of richly textured oral history interviews allows the voices of working-class African Americans to ring clearly as they counteracted and circumvented Memphis's racist environment during and after World War II.

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