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11 produkter
Haunted Bodies
Gender and Southern Texts
Av Anne Goodwyn Jones, Susan V. Donaldson
Häftad, 1998
627 kr
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Brings together some of the most highly regarded historians and literary critics of the American South to consider race, gender and texts through three centuries and from different vantage points.
Slave in a Box
Strange Career of Aunt Jemima
Av M.M. Manring
Häftad, 1998
328 kr
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This study addresses the question of why the troubling figure of Aunt Jemima has endured in American culture. The author traces the evolution of the mammy from her roots in Old South slave reality and mythology to Aunt Jemima's symbolic role in the Civil Rights movement.
Forgotten Time
The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta After the Civil War
Häftad, 2000
314 kr
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Looking beyond white planters to the region as a whole, the author uncovers evidence of African-American enterprise, the advantages of tenancy in an unstable cotton market, and the dominance of foreign-born merchants in the area including many Chinese. It explores the many reciprocal relationships.
Lynching of Emmett Till
A Documentary Narrative
Av Christopher Metress, Christopher Metress
Häftad, 2002
431 kr
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At 2:00 A.M. on August 28, 1955, fourteen-year-old Emmett Till, visiting from Chicago, was abducted from his great-uncle's cabin in Money, Mississippi, and never seen alive again. When his battered and bloated corpse floated to the surface of the Tallahatchie River three days later and two local …
Way Out of No Way
Claiming Family and Freedom in the New South
Inbunden, 2002
751 kr
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An African American folk saying declares, ""Our God can make a way out of no way...He can do anything but fail."" When Dianne Swann-Wright set out to capture and relate the history of her ancestors-African Americans in central Virginia after the Civil War-she had to find that way, just as her …
Way Out of No Way
Claiming Family and Freedom in the New South
Häftad, 2002
284 kr
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An African American folk saying declares, ""Our God can make a way out of no way...He can do anything but fail."" When Dianne Swann-Wright set out to capture and relate the history of her ancestors-African Americans in central Virginia after the Civil War-she had to find that way, just as her …
Murder, Honor and Law
Four Virginia Homicides from Reconstruction Through the Great Depression
Inbunden, 2003
810 kr
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Between 1868 and 1935, four killings in the state of Virginia attracted extensive press coverage and led to the press itself playing a role in the construction of the killings and the reporting of them. This text explores the interplay of national media and culture with Southern law and values.
Bloody Promenade
Reflections on a Civil War Battle
Inbunden, 1999
542 kr
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With maps and a brief discussion of the Battle of the Wilderness for readers not familiar with the events, this text provides a personal tour of one of the most savage engagements of the American Civil War and offers a discussion of its aftermath.
Bloody Promenade
Reflections on a Civil War Battle
Häftad, 1999
282 kr
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This title looks at on the Battle of the Wilderness, 1864. It tells a personal story and seeks to provide a critical gathering of the essential events of the battle and the accounts of it, early and late, in newspapers, memoirs, histories, novels and poetry.
Murder, Honor and Law
Four Virginia Homicides from Reconstruction Through the Great Depression
Häftad, 2003
311 kr
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Between 1868 and 1935, four killings in the state of Virginia attracted extensive press coverage and led to the press itself playing a role in the construction of the killings and the reporting of them. This text explores the interplay of national media and culture with Southern law and values.
Designing Dixie
Tourism, Memory, and Urban Space in the New South
Inbunden, 2014
614 kr
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Although many white southerners chose to memorialize the Lost Cause in the aftermath of the Civil War, boosters, entrepreneurs, and architects in southern cities believed that economic development, rather than nostalgia, would foster reconciliation between North and South. In Designing Dixie, Reiko …
