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Deep South Deep South A Social Anthropological Study of Caste and Class Allison Davis Burleigh B. Gardner Mary R. Gardner Enlarged Second Edition, with a New Foreword by Isabel Wilkerson The University of Chicago Press Chicago and London The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London © 1941, 1965 by The University of Chicago Foreword © 2022 by Isabel Wilkerson All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations in critical articles and reviews. For more information, contact the University of Chicago Press, 1427 E. 60th St., Chicago, IL 60637. Published 2022 Printed in the United States of America 31 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 1 2 3 4 5 ISBN- 13: 978- 0- 226- 81798- 9 (paper) ISBN- 13: 978- 0- 226- 81799- 6 (e- book) DOI: https:// doi .org /10 .7208 /chicago /9780226817996 .001 .0001 Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Davis, Allison, 1902– 1983, author. | Gardner, Burleigh B. (Burleigh Bradford), 1902– author. | Gardner, Mary R., author. | Wilkerson, Isabel, writer of foreword. | Warner, W. Lloyd (William Lloyd), 1898– 1970, writer of introduction. Title: Deep south : a social anthropological study of caste and class / Allison Davis, Burleigh B. Gardner, Mary R. Gardner. Description: Enlarged second edition / with a new foreword by Isabel Wilkerson. | Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2022. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2021057700 | ISBN 9780226817989 (paperback) | ISBN 9780226817996 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: African Americans—Southern States. | Social classes—Southern States. | Southern States—Social conditions. | Southern States—Economic conditions. Classification: LCC HN79.A2 D3 2022 | DDC 305.5/12208996073075—dc23/eng/20211217 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021057700 ♾ This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48- 1992 (Permanence of Paper). To Edwin R. Embree social engineer with a faith in the sciences of human behavior 1941 We thank the University of Chicago— particularly Walter Massey, emeritus trustee and special advisor to the president, and Professor Amanda Woodward, dean of the Division of Social Sciences— for the university’s deep commitment to honoring the life and work of W. Allison Davis. We express our profound thanks to David Varel for tirelessly documenting in his elegant work The Lost Black Scholar so much we did not know about the lives and legacies of Elizabeth Stubbs Davis and W. Allison Davis. And lastly, we thank Isabel Wilkerson for her magnificent foreword to this new edition of Deep South, for cham- pioning Deep South as one of the most important works on race in America, and for extolling the brilliance and courage of our remark- able parents. Allison S. Davis Gordon J. Davis 2022 Contents List of Illustrations ix List of Tables xi Foreword by Isabel Wilkerson xiii Preface xxv Part I 1 Introduction: Deep South— A Social Anthropological Study of Caste and Class W. Lloyd Warner 3 2 The System of Color- Castes 12 3 The Class System of the White Caste 46 4 The White Upper- Class Family 65 5 The White Middle- Class Family 75 6 The White Lower- Class Family 84 7 Social Cliques in the White Society 99 8 Social Mobility within the White Caste 124 9 The Class System of the Colored Caste 151 Part II 10 Intimidation of Labor 171 11 The Plantation in Its Social Setting 178 12 Relation between the Caste System and the Economic System 195 13 Caste, Class, and Local Government: White Power 217 14 Retrospect, 1965: Power and Caste 259 Afterword, 1986 Burleigh B. Gardner 271 Index 279 Illustrations 1 Relation between the Caste System and the Class System in the Deep South 9 2 The Social Perspectives of the Social Classes 51 3 Frequency of Interparticipation of a Group of Women in Old City: 1936— Group I 108 4 Frequency of Interparticipation of a Group of Women in Old City: 1936— Group II 108 5 Types of Members of, and Relationships between, Two Overlapping Cliques 109 6 Distribution of 443 White Clique Members by Social Class 117 7 Interparticipation of Clique Groups I and II in an Age- Class Configuration 119 8 The Participation Line in an Age- Class Configuration 119 9 Scope of Possible Participations of an Upper- Middle- Class Woman 121 10 Social Participation through an Indirect Relation: “Up and Older” 122 11 Circulation of Money on a Plantation through a Manager- Patriarch- Treasurer 189 12 Relative Status of Negroes and Whites in Non-economic Structures of the Society 196 13 Relative Status of Negroes and Whites in Economic Structures of the Society 196
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