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Sitting in darkness New South fiction, education, and the rise of Jim Crow colonialism, 1865-1920 / by Schmidt, Peter, 1951 Dec. 23-

Table of Contents: “…Louis Exposition (1904) -- Counter-statements to Jim Crow colonialism : Mark Twain's "To the person sitting in darkness" (1901) and Aurelio Tolentino's Yesterday, today, and tomorrow (1905) -- Educating whites to be white on the global frontier : hypnotism and ambivalence in Thomas Dixon and Owen Wister (1900-1905) -- The dark archive: early twentieth-century critiques of Jim Crow colonialism by New South novelists -- The education of Walter Hines Page : a gentleman's disagreement with the New South in The Southerner, being the autobiography of "Nicholas Worth" (1909) -- Anti-colonial education? …”
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In the shadow of the Black beast African American masculinity in the Harlem and Southern renaissances / by Leiter, Andrew B., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: literary renaissance and the interracial "sex factor" -- Sexual victims and black beasts in the nineteenth century -- One-drop men in the shadow of the beast: Walter White and James Weldon Johnson -- Sexual transgressions and the battle at the racial border: Schuyler's Black no more and Faulkner's Light in August -- Black beasts and the historical imaginations of Margaret Mitchell and Allen Tate -- The end of the chaste icon and the embrace of the beast: Caldwell's Trouble in July and Wright's Native son -- Conclusion: bigger and the black beast revenge narrative.…”
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Corazón de Dixie : Mexicanos in the U.S. South since 1910 / by Weise, Julie M.

Table of Contents: “…Mexicans as Europeans: Mexican nationalism and assimilation in New Orleans, 1910-1939 -- Different from that which is intended for the colored race: Mexicans and Mexico in Jim Crow Mississippi, 1918-1939 -- Citizens of somewhere: braceros, Tejanos, Dixiecrats, and Mexican bureaucrats in the Arkansas delta, 1939-1964 -- Mexicano stories and rural white narratives: creating pro-immigrant conservatism in rural Georgia, 1965-2004 -- Skyscrapers and chicken plants: Mexicans, Latinos, and exurban immigration politics in greater Charlotte, 1990-2012 -- Conclusion.…”
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Tracks by Jackson, Donald C., 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Wilderness before dawn -- To kill a bear -- Afterglow -- Infected by old river chute -- Bruins of the White River bottoms -- Jungle gold -- Swamp slogging -- Wild pond woodies -- Connections of a feathery sort -- Heritage -- Ptarmigan on Eagle Summit -- Deeper currents -- The Ivishak bull -- Winds -- A deer hunter's journal -- Baking the bread of life -- Overture to christening a magic wand -- Reunion -- Tara's treasures -- Sacred places -- Sirens' call -- Before the fire -- Sacraments.…”
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Corazón de Dixie : Mexicanos in the U.S. South since 1910 / by Weise, Julie M.

Table of Contents: “…Mexicans as Europeans: Mexican nationalism and assimilation in New Orleans, 1910-1939 -- Different from that which is intended for the colored race: Mexicans and Mexico in Jim Crow Mississippi, 1918-1939 -- Citizens of somewhere: braceros, Tejanos, Dixiecrats, and Mexican bureaucrats in the Arkansas delta, 1939-1964 -- Mexicano stories and rural white narratives: creating pro-immigrant conservatism in rural Georgia, 1965-2004 -- Skyscrapers and chicken plants: Mexicans, Latinos, and exurban immigration politics in greater Charlotte, 1990-2012 -- Conclusion.…”
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Away down South a history of Southern identity / by Cobb, James C. (James Charles), 1947-

Table of Contents: “…the crisis of Southern white identity -- Successful, optimistic, prosperous, and bland : telling about the No South -- Blackness and Southernness : African Americans look south toward home -- Divided by a common past : history and identity in the contemporary South -- The South and the politics of identity.…”
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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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Self-taught African American education in slavery and freedom / by Williams, Heather Andrea

Table of Contents: “…In secret places : acquiring literacy in slave communities -- A coveted possession : literacy in the first days of freedom -- The men are actually clamoring for books : African American soldiers and the educational mission -- We must get education for ourselves and our children : advocacy for education -- We are striving to do business on our own hook : organizing schools on the ground -- We are laboring under many difficulties : African American teachers in freedpeople's schools -- A long and tedious road to travel for knowledge : textbooks and freedpeople's schools -- If anybody wants an education, it is me : students in freedpeople's schools -- First movings of the waters : the creation of common school systems for Black and White students -- Epilogue -- Appendix : African Americans, literacy, and the law in the antebellum South.…”
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Sacral grooves, limbo gateways : travels in deep Southern time, Circum-Caribean space, Afro-Creole authority / by Cartwright, Keith, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Sangre y Monte -- "Come and Gaze on a Mystery" : Zora Neale Hurston's Rain-Bringing Authority -- Vamanos pa'l Monte : Into Florida's Repeating Bush -- Envoi: White [Wo]men Have Never Known What to Do with Their Blood : Gulf Carriers & Sanguine Knowledge.…”
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Minding the South by Reed, John Shelton

Table of Contents: “…Bradford -- What they say about Dixie -- Of Collard greens and kings -- Red and yellow, black, and white -- Telling about the South -- The imagined South -- Six Southerners -- Lady propagandist of the Old South -- The man from New Orleans -- The world's best-selling novelist -- Mover and shaker -- Hardy perennial -- The southern Elvis -- The end of Elvis -- Southern culture, High and low -- Southern laughter -- A cokelorist at work -- The national magazine of the South -- Carolina couch crime -- Southern lit (and one movie) -- Taking a stand -- Portrait of Atlanta -- Nebbish from Mississippi -- Hollywood chain gangs -- Reflections -- The banner that Won't stay furled -- The most Southern state? …”
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American cinema and the southern imaginary

Table of Contents: “…Bernstei -- Viewing the civil rights South. Black passing and white pluralism: imitation of life in the civil rights struggle / Ryan DeRosa -- Remembering Birmingham Sunday: Spike Lee's 4 little girls / Valerie Smith -- Exploitation movies and the freedom struggle of the 1960s / Sharon Monteith -- Crossing borders. …”
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Witness to Reconstruction Constance Fenimore Woolson and the Postbellum South, 1873-1894 /

Table of Contents: “…Buinicki ; Poking King David in his imperial eye/"I" : Woolson takes on the white man's burden in the postbellum United States / Carolyn Hall ; Cypresses, chameleons, and snakes : displacement in Woolson's "The South devil" / Kathleen Diffley -- "Burned into us by a red-hot fire" : novels of the South: The portrait of a southern lady in Woolson's For the major / Janet Gabler-Hover ; Northeast angels : Henry James in Woolson's Florida / Geraldine Murphy ; The merits of transit : Woolson's return to Reconstruction in Jupiter lights / Sharon Kennedy-Nolle ; "Pioneers of spoliation" : Woolson's Horace Chase and the role of magazine writing in the Gilded-Age development of the South / Kevin E. …”
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The Southern Manifesto : massive resistance and the fight to preserve segregation / by Day, John Kyle

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The possible South : documentary film and the limitations of biraciality / by Brasell, R. Bruce

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Discovering the South : One Man's Travels through a Changing America in the 1930s / by Ritterhouse, Jennifer Lynn

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Discovering the South : One Man's Travels through a Changing America in the 1930s / by Ritterhouse, Jennifer Lynn

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