This Vast Land

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This Vast Land is written by Stephen E. Ambrose and published by Simon and Schuster. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0689864485 (ISBN 10) and 9780689864483 (ISBN 13).

This groundbreaking book collects black women's personal recollections of their public and private lives during the period of legal segregation in the American South. Using first-person narratives, collected through oral history interviews, the book emphasizes women's role in their families and communities, treating women as important actors in the economic, social, cultural, and political life of the segregated South. By focusing on the commonalities of women's experiences, as well as the ways that women's lives differed from the experiences of southern black men, Living with Jim Crow analyzes the interlocking forces of racism and sexism .