The Strange Career of Jim Crow

Whilst down South I decided to read a book about the South.  Specifically about Jim Crow and desegregation.  My brother is a public history major and specializes in Louisiana history - so he had quite a few books to choose from.  The one I picked The Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann Woodward is essentially a series of essays published as a short history.  It was very readable, and his argument was convincing, but it is not in any way an introduction to the subject. I am ashamed to admit that I didn't know enough about major events in Southern U.S. history to totally follow the names, events, and theories that Woodward referenced throughout.  

But I did like this quote:

"When a scientific theory ceases to account for the observed facts of common experience, however, it would seem to be time to discard the theory." (109).

Place and Space

"Place is not only coadunative but also...deconstructive -- deconstructive of oppositions that it brings and holds together within its own ambience.  These oppositions include binary pairs of terms that have enjoyed hegemonic power in Western epistemology and metaphysics.  I am thinking of such dichotomies as subject and object, self and other, formal and substantive, mind and body, inner and outer, perception and imagination (or memory), and nature and culture themselves."

-- Edward S. Casey. 1997.   "How to get from space to place in a fairly short stretch of time: Phenomenological prolegomena"  (36)

Note

The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being.  Philosophy is not the reflection of a pre-existing truth, but, like art, the act of bringing truth into being.
The Phenomenology of Perception Merleau-Ponty