Kristina DuRocher, assistant professor of history at Morehead State University, lives in Morehead, Kentucky.
" Raising Racists is a well-written, well-researched account of the
ways white supremacists systematically indoctrinated children into
a way of life that made rational the cruel, often lethal violence
directed toward African Americans." -- Louisiana History
"" Raising Racists reveals the interlocking practices, mores, and
traditions that trained white children to fear, disdain, and
dehumanize their black neighbors. Through crisp, compelling, and
trenchant discussions of school texts, consumer goods, violent
rituals of black debasement, and day-to-day lessons in Jim Crow
etiquette, DuRocher reminds us how much energy and care went into
each successive generation of white southerners the ideology of
white supremacy." -- W. Fitzhugh Brundage, author of A Socialist
Utopia in the New South: The Ruskin Colonies in Tennessee and
Georgia, 1894-1901" --
""Contributes to our growing yet still limited understanding about
the central roles that children and young people played in the
construction and maintenance of oppressive sociopolitical systems
and identities." -- American Historical Review" --
""DuRocher painstakingly describes the role of parents, teachers
and community leaders in 'parental instruction, public schools,
churches, and the expansion of consumerism in the South...'" --
History Wire" --
""DuRocher...has successfully revised her dissertation into an
important monograph that scholars interested in souther regional
identity, children's history, and the making of white supremacist
masculinites and femininities will find valuable." -- North
Carolina Historical Review" --
""DuRocher's work continues the recent laudable trend of taking age
more seriously as a category of analysis, and her careful research
provides a timely reminder that communities are defined by the
education of their children." -- Journal of Southern History"
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""Hard-hitting.... Examining white Southerners' memoirs,
advertisements for household products, school textbooks, parenting
manuals, children's literature, toys and games, and dramatic
productions, Raising Racists reveals the multiple interlocking and
mutually reinforcing methods white Southerners used to perpetuate
white supremacy in the post-Reconstruction South."-- Register of
the Kentucky Historical Society" --
""Much has been written about the battles and the privates and the
generals who were committed to their cause, but many of us who look
back after a century and a half do not comprehend the full effect
of that bloody war on this new country, less than a century after
it won independence from Great Britain."-- Roanoke Times" --
""Thoroughly exposes a crippled southern society in the wake of the
Civil War, still determined to preserve its racial and social
control through new generations, and reveals the extent to which
southerners manipulated their public and private institutions to
that end."-- Southern Historian" --
""With an important set of questions to consider, extensive
evidence to draw upon, and a large body of scholarship to engage,
DuRocher's study promises a great deal. Her thoughtful analysis
frequently offers valuable observations about children's
experiences." -- Ohio Valley History" --
"In her book, Raising Racists: The Socialization of White Children
in the Jim Crow South, DuRocher takes the reader on a journey into
the shaping of the minds of white children into accepting white
supremacy and public rituals of racial violence. -- Black Diaspora
Review" -- Adeyemi Doss, Black Diaspora Review
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