Harmony and Harassment traces the headwaters of critical race theory (CRT) to the rural community of Harmony, Mississippi, at the height of the 1960s US civil rights movement. As Aja Y. Martinez and Robert O. Smith explore these headwaters, readers meet key community leaders such as Behonor McDonald, Winson Hudson, and Dovie Hudson. These Black women's activism for civil rights, voting rights, and educational access transformed their community while also providing the foundations for Derrick Bell's legal theories, Alice Walker's womanist concept, and the enduring educational program now known as Head Start. Building on extensive archival research and a web of deeply human relationships, Martinez and Smith argue for renewed appreciation of counterstory as central to CRT methodology. Harmony and Harassment shows how CRT developed from the ground up; from this foundation, its insights continue to hold great potential for strengthening education, legal studies, and the humanities and social sciences.
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Table of contents
- Series Page
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acronyms and Abbreviations
- Chronology
- Introduction: Stories That Never Die
- 1. Finding Mrs. McDonald: Painting with Her Own Brush
- 2. To the Headwaters of Our Mothers’ Gardens
- 3. Harmony: A Prosopography
- 4. From Exile to Liberation
- 5. “All I Have to Do in Life Is Save My Soul”: CRT for the People
- Conclusion: A Hope Worth Fighting For
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix: Memorial Ceremony for the Harmony/Galilee Homecoming Service
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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