Black and White in the Southern States: A Study of the Race Problem in the United States from a South African Point of View

REPRINTED FOR THE FIRST TIME since its publication in 1915, Black and White in the Southern States is one of the earliest studies in comparative race relations and the first to connect the experience of the American South to that of South Africa. This work is a synthesis of the observations Evans made as he traveled the southern United States in 1914 to investigate metropolitan life, industrial relations and the workplace, and social and cultural connections. Evans’s study presents a revealing assessment of racial attitudes and ideologies in the Jim Crow era. In his introduction to this edition George M. Fredrickson, the preeminent scholar who defined the field of comparative racial ideologies, analyzes the underlying racist character of Evans’s work and places it in its full intellectual and social context.