Writing the South through the self [electronic resource] : explorations in southern autobiography / John C. Inscoe.
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- computer
- online resource
- 9780820339689
- 0820339687
- Appalachian Region -- Social conditions
- Southern States -- Social conditions
- Southern States -- Biography
- College students -- Southern States -- Attitudes
- Segregation in transportation -- Southern States
- Social stratification -- Southern States
- Miscegenation -- Southern States
- Race discrimination -- Southern States
- Autobiography -- Psychological aspects -- Southern States
- Autobiography -- Social aspects -- Southern States
- 975 22
- F208 .I67 2011
"Published in association with the Georgia Humanities Council."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-239) and index.
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 pretty fed up with this two-tone South" : moving toward multiculturalism.
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