Kristina DuRocher

Raising Racists: The Socialization of White Children in the Jim Crow South - New Directions in Southern History Kristina DuRocher

Reveals how white adults in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries continually reinforced race and gender roles to maintain white supremacy. Raising Racists combines an analysis of the remembered experiences of a racist society, how that society influenced children, and, most important, how racial violence and brutality shaped growing up in the early-twentieth-century South.