Writing the South through the self : explorations in southern autobiography / John C. Inscoe.
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Language: | English |
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Athens :
University of Georgia Press,
[2011], ©2011.
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Physical Description: | xv, 249 pages |
Format: | Book |
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. "getting fed up with this two-tone South" : moving toward ulticulturalism.