| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.3

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Book Review

Southern Modernist: Arthur Raper from the New Deal to the Cold War. By Louis Mazzari. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. xii, 404 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3189-3.)

Late in his life, Arthur Raper, still clinging to his progressive ideals after a pathbreaking career as a sociologist in the South during the New Deal, visited the Smithsonian Institution to help curate an exhibit of a reassembled sharecropper's cabin. Perturbed by the inauthentic features he detected in the final product, Raper began buttonholing museum patrons to make sure that the surrealistic exhibit left them with no romantic notions about the South of that time. Raper's actions, as Louis Mazzari demonstrates in his richly detailed new biography of this forward-thinking southerner, reveal much about Raper's core commitments: to accuracy in social science, to dignity and honor for the impoverished, and to a world both modern and democratic.

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