Writing the South through the self explorations in southern autobiography /

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Hoofdauteur: Inscoe, John C., 1951-
Coauteur: ebrary, Inc
Formaat: Elektronisch E-boek
Taal:Engels
Gepubliceerd in: Athens [Ga.] : University of Georgia Press, c2011.
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Inhoudsopgave:
  • 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.