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From the Dance Hall to Facebook: Teen Girls, Mass Media, and Moral Panic in the United States, 1905–2010 by Shayla Thiel-Stern (review)

Driskell’s analysis parallels Glenda Gilmore’s account in Gender and Jim Crow of black women’s work as ambassadors to the white power structure in the wake of disfranchisement. But it also goes further to speak to an implicit gender divide in scholarship on black middle-class respectability that finds works that focus primarily on men, such as Kevin Gaines’s Uplifting the Race, lamenting a debilitating intra-racial classism while works that focus primarily on women, such as Gilmore and Rouse’s books and Deborah Gray White’s Too Heavy a Load, are more sympathetic and optimistic about the liberating potential of “uplift” strategies. Schooling Jim Crow is a local study and has less to say about education than readers may assume from the title. Nevertheless, and despite the fact that the scope of the Neighborhood Union’s work makes the Atlanta case especially distinctive, Driskell’s book is valuable for illustrating how a “children’s issue” like the funding of schools as well as the larger question of household access to city services could become central to a transformation in political consciousness. An additional reason the Atlanta story is important is the involvement of Walter White, James Weldon Johnson, and the still-new NAACP. As Driskell points out, the NAACP fought for schools before it fought for school integration. On the road to Brown, this earlier fight “dropped from the official memory of the organization.” But “the magnitude of the victory in Atlanta guaranteed it would become an important model for future organizing” (6).