Segregation in the New South

“In this thorough and thoughtful study, Harris reaches beyond the usual scholarship to delve into the interplay of emotional factors and the creation of a caste society.” ~Orville Vernon Burton, author of The Age of Lincoln: A History and coauthor of Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court

“Harris’s reconstruction of the tactics of Birmingham’s Black political leaders to resist white supremacy is remarkable, and his analyses of the discrimination in education and housing are careful, impressive, and original.” ~Henry M. McKiven Jr., author of Iron and Steel: Class, Race, and Community in Birmingham, Alabama, 1875–1920

“Harris’s study, based on extraordinarily careful and impressive research, reveals in rich detail the structures of white supremacy in late nineteenth-century Birmingham.” ~J. Mills Thornton III, author of Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma

“Harris walks the reader not just down Birmingham’s streets, but even through its sewer system, to demonstrate the city’s layers of segregation.” ~Robert C. Kenzer, author of Enterprising Southerners: Black Economic Success in North Carolina, 1865–1915

“Carl V. Harris's Segregation in the New South uses Birmingham as a case study to revive a historiographical debate on the timing and nature of segregation. . . . Harris provides critical insights into the segregation of a city notorious for racial animus, but, because of the study's local focus, important outside factors are peripheral in the narrative. . . . this book is a model of interweaving qualitative and quantitative evidence through an interdisciplinary approach and pushes scholars to consider the socio-emotional factors that undergirded specific policies.” ~Journal of Southern History