| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.4

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Book Review

Growing Up Jim Crow: How Black and White Southern Children Learned Race. By Jennifer Ritterhouse. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xiv, 306 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-3016-X. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5684-3.)

Jennifer Ritterhouse's book illustrates both the promise and the pitfalls of an emerging field of study. Her focus on childhood experiences in the segregated South, a topic long- neglected by historians, is welcome. Her approach, which relies heavily on autobiography and oral history, is innovative. She sets up a sound analytical framework for her study. Chapter 1 provides a general survey of racial etiquette in the South from slavery to the Great Depression; chapter 2 analyzes African American and white parents' impact on shaping their children's perceptions of race; chapter 3 examines first childhood encounters between the races; chapter 4 assesses childhood interactions; and chapter 5 looks at how Jim Crow shaped African American and white adolescence.

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