90s in the shade

Ninety Degrees In The Shade, 1983 Hardcover Book by Clarence Cason. In early May 1935, just before the publication of 90° in the Shade, Cason took his own life with an automatic pistol in his campus office at Tuscaloosa. Cason's book stands out among works of the time for its controversial call for the full inclusion of African Americans, together with less privileged whites, into the mainstream of southern economic and political life. He criticized the aristocratic "moonlight and magnolias" myth of the Old South and the popular stereotypes of poor whites and degraded blacks as false and detrimental. The majority of the region's inhabitants, the great mass of working and middle-class people, were in his opinion honest and hardworking people who together had pioneered a way of life in a hostile environment and who could and would adapt to new conditions under industrialism.