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Trouble in Mind (Vintage) (Paperback)

by Leon F. Litwack (Author)
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  • Paperback: 640 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage Books; illustrated edition edition (1 Aug 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0375702636
  • ISBN-13: 978-0375702631
  • Product Dimensions: 20.5 x 13.3 x 3.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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In the sequel to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Been in the Storm So Long, the author traces the often excruciating lives of newly freed slaves in the South after the Civil War, when lynch mobs roamed the land. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

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4/12/98, Washington Post Book World, Jonathan Yardley
"Nearly two decades ago Leon F. Litwack published "Been In the Storm So Long", a brilliant and deeply empathetic account of how the freed slaves of the South tried to adjust to their new lives. Thick in pertinent and often moving detail, broad in analysis and interpretation, the book walked off with a handful of well-deserved prizes and earned its author a reputation as one of the most distinguished and influential historians of African-American life. "Trouble In Mind" is a continuation of Litwack's masterwork . . . Never has so much about the repression and terror of the Jin Crow era been brought within the pages of a single book. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A white southerner says this book has been long needed, 25 Aug 1999
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I picked up "Trouble In Mind" hoping it would be the kind of exhaustive and eloquent study of the Jim Crow South that has been needed for decades. I was not disappointed. This book goes to great lengths to document every facet of the black experience in the American South, the so-called "New South." It not only shows how a people struggled against unbelieveable injustice and violence, but endured. This must never be forgotten. Ever. Earlier reviews which call this book "revisionist" "biased" or "flawed" seem to have forgotten Litwack's admonition in the preface, that this book was not meant "to depict blacks only as victims or whites only as victimizers." But it also shows an unwillingness to believe that things of this nature could have happened in America. Unfortunately, they did, and this book is only a beginning. It must not be viewed as a sword of Damocles to be held over the head of every white, but as a beginning to understanding the very real work left to be done in this country between whites and blacks. I applaud Leon Litwack for his work.
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1.0 out of 5 stars At least 1 absentminded, inaccurate chapter, 12 Feb 1999
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This review is from: Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow (Hardcover)
I may not be a historian, but at least one of the chapters of this book is absolutely inaccurate. The chapter I refer to deals with a lynching which happened in my county in Georgia. Not only did Litwack misidentify the name of my town, he also misidentified the actual location where it occurred. His source credits did not reflect that he had consulted the newspaper in my hometown for an account of the event (I did when I researched it, and there is an account of the event a day after it happened); instead, he consulted Northern and NAACP publications, which, while they have their value, their accuracy cannot be proven when we area talking about 1899 and their lack of bias cannot be proven when we are talking about 1899. This leads me to believe that Litwack never set foot in my hometown. Never looked in microfilm of our newspaper. Some researcher. Therefore I have to assume that other passages in this book are as biased and full of holes as Litwack's description of the Sam Hose incident.

Another theme of this so-called factual book is the absolute omission of white conscience. Anyone who knows anything about the horrible lynching I described knows that more than one white man begged and pleaded with the mob to spare Sam Hose. Why were these people left out of Litwack's account?

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5.0 out of 5 stars American history, as written in blood, 10 Mar 1999
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This review is from: Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow (Hardcover)
Very few non-fiction books ever written in this country have been as astonishing,as factually solid, and as thoroughly disturbing. To read a book like this is to understand that there is something basically wrong with the way we have all been taught history. It isn't simply that we have never learned the entire history of segregation, of Jim Crow law, of lynchings, of post-Reconstruction (although we certainly haven't.) It's that our understanding of history has been sanitized beyond all recognition or resemblance to its true state. History as taught in schools is *perhaps* (and this is really being generous) comparable to five or six degrees ripped from a three hundred and sixty degree circle. Every once in a while, a book like one of Leon Litwack's comes along, and adds a liberal helping of degrees to our historical plates.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Woderful History revising the misconceptions of the past.
This book is revisionisim at its best. Dr. Litwack articulates the experience of blacks in the South with such depth that it becomes an inegral part of American History. Read more
Published on 27 Oct 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars Another book to try to find.
It is probably out of print, but anyone horrified by "Trouble in Mind" must find a copy of "The History of Violence in America," by Hugh Davis Graham and Ted... Read more
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