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During the Great Depression, the American South was not merely "the nation's number one economic problem, " as President Franklin Roosevelt declared. It was also a battlefield on which forces for and against social change were starting to form. For a white southern liberal like Jonathan Daniels, editor of the Raleigh News and Observer, it was a fascinating moment to explore. Attuned to culture as well as politics, Daniels knew the true South l...

In the summer of 1937, Jonathan Daniels, the white, liberal-minded editor of the Raleigh News and Observer, took a ten-state driving tour to "discover” his native land. In Discovering the South Jennifer Ritterhouse pieces together Daniels's notes from his tour along with his published writings and archival evidence to put this observer's journey through a South in transition into a larger context.

Ritterhouse asks how southern black and white children in the early 20th century learned the unwritten rules that guided every aspect of individual behavior, from how blacks and whites stood, sat, ate, drank, walked, and talked to whether they made eye contact with one another. More broadly, she asks how individuals developed racial self-consciousness. Exploring relationships between public and private and between segregation, racial etiquette...