| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.1

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Book Review

Managing White Supremacy: Race, Politics, and Citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia. By J. Douglas Smith. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xiv, 411 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8078-2756-8. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5424-7.)

Because historians once focused their attentions on the origins of segregation and disfranchisement and more recently have concentrated on the civil rights movement that brought them to an end, the years of Jim Crow's reign have not received the attention they deserve. Several historians have begun to redress that neglect, and J. Douglas Smith's Managing White Supremacy proves a welcome addition to the growing scholarship on race relations in the 1920s and 1930s. Smith's thoroughly researched study of race in Virginia does not explore the daily interactions of the races or document the costs of segregation for African Americans. Rather, it analyzes the attitudes and strategies both of the state's African American leaders and of its white elite, a group, Smith posits, of only a few thousand people who dominated the state.

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