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Blind No More
With a fresh interpretation of African American resistance to kidnapping and pre–Civil War political culture, Blind No More sheds new light on the coming of the Civil War by …
Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers
In this book Bill C. Malone recalls the lost worlds of pioneering fiddlers and pickers, balladeers and yodelers. As he looks at ""hillbilly"" music's pre-commercial era and its …
The Hammers of Creation
In ""The Hammers of Creation"", Eric J. Sundquist analyzes the powerful role played by folk culture in three major African American novels of the early twentieth century: James …
Weaving Alliances with Other Women
River-cane baskets woven by the Chitimachas of south Louisiana are universally admired for their beauty and workmanship. Recounting friendships that Chitimacha weaver Christine …
A Late Encounter with the Civil War
In A Late Encounter with the Civil War, Michael Kreyling confronts the changing nature of our relationship to the anniversary of the war that nearly split the United States. When …
A Consuming Fire
This book presents insight into religion and slavery from a leading southern scholar. ""A Consuming Fire"" focuses on the religious dimensions of the South's response to slavery, …
The Literary Percys
The Percys are notable, not only for their prominence in the political and economic development of the Mississippi Delta, but also for their literary creativity. In this text the …
Myths and Men
In the role of ""historian-detective"" Bernard Mayo presents in lecture form three case histories in hero-worship. These abundantly illustrate the uses and abuses of history, …
The Countercultural South
This text explores the politically divergent cultures of resistance created by poor White and working-class Black Southern men, which includes how the practice of Black labour …
Southern Writers in the Modern World
One of the most important of the Southern magazines in the 1920s was The Fugitive, a magazine of verse and brief commentaries on literature in general. Among its contributors were …
Hidden in Plain Sight
For as long as the United States owed its prosperity to a New World plantation complex, from colonial settlement until well into the twentieth century, the toxic practices …
The Brown Decision, Jim Crow, and Southern Identity
A spirited defense of the landmark civil rights case and its place in our history. The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling was a watershed event in the fight against racial …