TY - BOOK AU - Inscoe,John C. ED - Project Muse. TI - Writing the South through the self: explorations in southern autobiography SN - 9780820339689 AV - F208 .I67 2011 U1 - 975 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Athens PB - University of Georgia Press KW - College students KW - Southern States KW - Attitudes KW - Segregation in transportation KW - Social stratification KW - Miscegenation KW - Race discrimination KW - Autobiography KW - Psychological aspects KW - Social aspects KW - Appalachian Region KW - Social conditions KW - Biography KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - "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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780820339689/ ER -