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Writing the South through the self explorations in southern autobiography / by Inscoe, John C., 1951-

Table of Contents: “…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. …”
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Street scenes staging the self in immigrant New York, 1880-1924 / by Romeyn, Esther

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Flashes of a southern spirit meanings of the spirit in the U.S. South / by Wilson, Charles Reagan

Table of Contents: “…The invention of southern tradition : the writing and ritualization of southern history, 1880-1930 -- The burden of southern culture -- Saturated southerners : the South's poor whites and southern regional consciousness -- Our land, our country : Faulkner, the South, and the American way of life -- The myth of the biracial South -- Beyond the Sahara of the Bozart : creativity and southern culture -- Flashes of the spirit : creativity and southern religion -- The word and the image : self-taught art, the Bible, the spirit, and southern creativity -- Apocalypse South : McKendree Long and southern evangelicalism -- "Just a little talk with Jesus" : Elvis Presley, religious music, and southern spirituality -- Richard Wright's pagan Spain : a southern Protestant abroad -- A journey to southern religious studies -- Afterword : constructing and experiencing the spirit.…”
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