Dissertation Title

Jim Crow Prerogatives: Race and Consumption in the United States South, 1890-1980

Biography

Micah Jones completed a PhD in African American Studies and History at Yale University. Her project, "Jim Crow Prerogatives: Race and Consumption in the United States South, 1890-1980," examines Black southerners’ experiences grocery shopping in the Jim Crow South. It contends that groceries, as racially mixed spaces amidst segregation, were key sites of race-making. It demonstrates how grocery stores laid the groundwork for a facially race neutral, but functionally racist, post-Jim Crow racial regime.