Under the Knife: How a Wealthy Negro Surgeon Wielded Power in the Jim Crow South

Description: Amazon.com Review Just as he skillfully deconstructed the Black Panthers in his groundbreaking The Shadow of the Panther, Hugh Pearson presents in Under the Knife a familial tale of a different kind of black power that evades our most ingrained social clichés. Pearson's uncle, Dr. Joseph Griffin, lived in segregated Georgia and moved up the socioeconomic ladder by secretly performing abortions and treating the sexually transmitted diseases of the white folks in his community. When they couldn't pay up, the good doctor extorted property deals from them! He also hired down-and-out blacks as butlers and chauffeurs and was a pillar ... (more)

Manufacturer: Free Press
Release date: 21 February 2000
ISBN-10 : 0684846519 | ISBN-13: 9780684846514

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