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Star Creek Papers by Julia W. Bond and Horace Mann Bond (1997, Hardcover)

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The Star Creek Papers is a never before published account of the complex realities of race relations in the rural South in the 1930s. When Horace and Julia Bond moved to Louisiana in 1934, they entered a world where the legacy of slavery was miscegenation, lingering paternalism, and deadly racism.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of Georgia Press

ISBN-10082031904X

ISBN-139780820319049

eBay Product ID (ePID)25038575885

Product Key Features

Number of Pages192 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameStar Creek Papers

SubjectRural, United States / 20th Century, Discrimination & Race Relations, Sociology / General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies

Publication Year1997

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaSocial Science, Education, History

AuthorJulia W. Bond, Horace Mann Bond

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight1 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN96-048851

Reviews"An accessible and poignant work which will attract interest of anyone interested in the evolution of the black family and rural race relations."--Fitzhugh Brundage, author ofLynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 18801930, "An accessible and poignant work which will attract interest of anyone interested in the evolution of the black family and rural race relations."--Fitzhugh Brundage, author of Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 18801930

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SynopsisThe Star Creek Papers is the never-before-published account of the complex realities of race relations in the rural South in the 1930s. When Horace and Julia Bond moved to Louisiana in 1934, they entered a world where the legacy of slavery was miscegenation, lingering paternalism, and deadly racism. The Bonds were a young, well-educated and idealistic African American couple working for the Rosenwald Fund, a trust established by a northern philanthropist to build schools in rural areas. They were part of the "Explorer Project" sent to investigate the progress of the school in the Star Creek district of Washington Parish. Their report, which decried the teachers' lack of experience, the poor quality of the coursework, and the students' chronic absenteeism, was based on their private journal, "The Star Creek Diary," a shrewdly observed, sharply etched, and affectionate portrait of a rural black community. Horace Bond was moved to write a second document, "Forty Acres and a Mule," a history of a black farming family, after Jerome Wilson was lynched in 1935. The Wilsons were thrifty landowners whom Bond knew and respected; he intended to turn their story into a book, but the chronicle remained unfinished at his death. These important primary documents were rediscovered by civil rights scholar Adam Fairclough, who edited them with Julia Bond's support., Horace and Julia Bond were a young, well-educated, and idealistic African American couple who moved to Louisiana in 1934. The documents which they produced are here edited to form a personal study of the evolution of the black family and rural race relations in the American South.

LC Classification NumberF377.W3B66 1997