The SouthThe last generation of Americans with a living memory of Jim Crow will soon disappear. They leave behind a collective memory of segregation shaped increasingly by its horrors and heroic defeat but not a nuanced understanding of everyday life in Jim Crow America. In The South, Adolph L. Reed Jr. a New Orleanian, political scientist, and, according to Cornel West, the greatest democratic theorist of his generation takes up the urgent task of recounting