Jumpin' Jim Crow

Rating:
Summary: Southern history, state of the art
Review: If you like Southern history, especially thoughtful and effective professional history, this is a terrific collection. A few of the pieces--the first one, unfortunately, among them--are dry and a bit pinched, for lack of a better word. But don't be fooled, it gets better--all of the essays are worth reading and there are real gems throughout, especially toward the end. Timothy Tyson's "Dynamite" essay is "the bomb," pardon the pun. And Glenda Gilmore's essay is very strong. I like the range of stuff here, and these are all first-rate historians. I would recommend this for course adoptions, especially for seminars--some of the essays will not work for undergraduates.