"Our generation had nothing to do with discrimination" : Researching white Southerners ; Framing, ideology, and identity ; Overview of the book -- "Only love under our roof": Jim Crow at home : The sanctity of the white home ; Domestic workers : "help" across the color line ; Constructing black perspectives ; Reconciling white supremacy and "good" people ; Forgotten alternatives -- "Just the way it was": Jim Crow in public : The system of legal segregation ; A time of safety and easygoing race relations ; Interpreting segregation's signs and meanings ; Assessing structural advantage and disadvantage ; Reconciling nostalgia and the racial past -- Distancing and rejection: the civil rights movement at arm's length : Greensboro : the civil rights city ; Constructing the enlightened white Southern self ; Symbolic detachment from the movement ; Persistent distancing from the movement ; White victimhood : tension and danger in local civil rights activism ; For them, by them : not our movement -- White victims : trials and tribulations of school desegregation : Greensboro's school desegregation saga ; White children's vulnerabilities ; Persistent resentment ; Maintaining white virtue through memory -- Reflecting on a lifetime : views of the post-civil rights era : Assessing race today : linking past and present ; "You can't live in the stew" : rejecting truth and reconciliation ; On the relevance of the racial past -- Memory and white moral identity : White moral identity making : constructing society, self, and other ; Continuities and adaptations : ideology and framing ; Denial, remembrance, and justice -- Appendix: Researching elder white Southerners.
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