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Can Anything Beat White? A Black Family's Letters.

Publication: Journal of Southern History
Publication Date: 01-FEB-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Can Anything Beat White? A Black Family's Letters.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Can Anything Beat White? A Black Family's Letters. By Elisabeth Petry. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2005. Pp xxx, 190. $35.00, ISBN 1-57806-785-5.)

The text of Elisabeth Petry's Can An)'thing Beat White? A Black Family's Letters answers the title's question by affirming the ability of a middle-class black family living in the North to educate and empower its own. Using a trove of family letters that date from 1891 to 1910, Petty narrates the evolution of her extended family from its founding by an...

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