Book Details + Condition: The Macmillan Company (New York). First Edition, 1943. Hardcover with dust jacket. 403 pages. "Profusley illustrated with 79 plates from original photographs documenting rural Georgia during the New Deal South in the 1930s. The photographs were taken by Jack Delano as part of his tenure with the Farm Security Administration Photography program (FSA). Tenants has been described as one of the first significant showcases of his work. Raper was a sociologist who spent two years in Greene County, Georgia documenting the lives of tenant-farm families. While Raper 'chronicles how the new Deal denied blacks equal treatment, in every chapter Raper notes their (as well as poor whites’) massively improved conditions due to the county planning program' which improved diet, healthcare, and better schools." [Ian Brabner, Rare Americana, 2022] Firm binding; rubbed corners and edges; wear to boards, with some discoloration present; United States Department of Agriculture Library bookplate and stamp to front endpapers; interior is clean and free of markings. Dust jacket is fragile and shows much wear at edges and corners, but continues to hold the book.
