In Black and White

by Hammond, Lily Hardy; Green, Elna C.

• ISBN13: 9780820330624
• ISBN10: 0820330620
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-03-25
• Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr

Summary

"Our problem is not racial, but human and economic. . . . We hold the Negro racially responsible for conditions common to all races on his economic plane." The writings of reformer Lily Hardy Hammond (1859-1925) are filled with such forthright criticisms of southern white attitudes toward African Americans--enough so that her stature as a southern progressive thinker would seem assured. Yet Hammond, who once stood at the intellectual center of the southern women's social gospel movement and was in her time the South's most prolific female writer on the "race question," has been marginalized.This volume reprintsIn Black and White, the most important of Hammond's ten books, along with a sampling of the dozens of articles she published. Elna C. Green's biographical introduction tells of Hammond's marriage to a prominent Methodist minister and educator. It also traces Hammond's career within the context of prevailing gender and racial attitudes in the Jim Crow South. Hammond, who had roots in Methodist home mission work, was also active in such secular and ecumenical organizations as the Southern Sociological Congress, the Commission on Interracial Cooperation, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Hammond worked alongside blacks to promote education, improve living conditions, and stop lynching. As a suffragist and temperance advocate, she urged the leaders of those largely white women's movements to partner with African Americans.Historians of religion, social science, and race relations will welcome the reintroduction of this remarkable but virtually forgotten figure.

Author Biography

Elna Green is Associate Dean of the College of Humanities and Arts at San Jose State University. She is the author of This Business of Relief and the editor of Before the New Deal and The New Deal and Beyond (all Georgia).

Table of Contents

Introduction to This Edition	p. vii
List of Lily Hardy Hammond's Publications	p. lv
In Black and White: An Interpretation of the South
Introduction [to the First Edition]	p. 3
In Terms of Humanity	p. 6
The Basis of Adjustment	p. 19
Houses and Homes	p. 39
An Ounce of Prevention	p. 57
Human Wreckage	p. 68
Service and Cooperation	p. 81
Those Who Come After Us	p. 98
The Great Adventure	p. 105
Selections from Lily Hammond's Other Publications
"Woman's Work for Woman" (1895)	p. 115
"A Southern View of the Negro" (1903)	p. 122
"A Black-and-White Christmas" (1915)	p. 129
"Southern Women and Racial Adjustment" (1917)	p. 132
Index	p. 155
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