UID:
almafu_9959228215302883
Format:
1 online resource (268 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-283-11037-7
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9786613110374
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0-8203-3968-7
Content:
Drawing on two decades of teaching a college-level course on southern history as viewed through autobiography and memoir, John C. Inscoe has crafted a series of essays exploring the southern experience as reflected in the life stories of those who lived it.
Note:
"Published in association with the Georgia Humanities Council."
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Lessons from southern lives : teaching race through autobiography -- "I learn what I am" : adolescent struggles with mixed-race identity -- "All manner of defeated, shiftless, shifty, pathetic and interesting good people" : autobiographical encounters with southern white poverty -- Railroads, race, and remembrance : the traumas of train travel in the Jim Crow South -- "I'm better than this sorry place" : coming to terms with self and the South in college -- Sense of place, sense of being : Appalachian struggles with identity, belonging, and escape -- Afterword. "getting fed up with this two-tone South" : moving toward ulticulturalism.
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8203-3767-6
Language:
English
