Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The Sweet Hell Inside	Edward Ball	Recounts the lives of the Harleston family of South Carolina, the progeny of a Southern gentleman and his slave who cast off their blemished roots and achieved affluence in part through a surprisingl…	OL118372W
African Americans in Florida	Jones, Maxine	Over 400 years ago, in 1528, an African named Estevanico first set foot in Florida near present-day Tampa as part of a Spanish exploration party. Since then, African Americans in Florida have continu…	OL13755189W
English in the Southern United States	Stephen J Nagle	The English of the southern United States is possibly the most studied of any regional variety of any language because of its rich internal diversity, its distinctiveness among regional varieties in …	OL15169298W
Fight against fear	Clive Webb	"In the uneasily shared history of Jews and blacks in America, the struggle for civil rights in the South may be the least understood episode. Fight against Fear is the first book to focus on Jews an…	OL15326841W
A nation under our feet	Steven Hahn	This is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a political people-an embryonic black nation. As Steven Hahn demonstrates, rural Afr…	OL15838669W
All around town	Dinah Johnson	Chronicles the rich lives of the African American citizens of Columbia, South Carolina, as well as other towns and cities during the 1920s and 1930s.	OL19461263W
Black voices from Reconstruction, 1865-1877	John David Smith	Examines, using original source documents, photographs and drawings, the experiences and points of view of former slaves during the period of Reconstruction following the Civil War.	OL20363W
Deep Souths	J. William Harris	"Deep Souths tells the stories of three southern regions from Reconstruction to World War II: the Georgia Sea Islands and Atlantic coast, the eastern Piedmont of Georgia, and the Mississippi-Yazoo De…	OL2743141W
Turning south again	Houston A. Baker	Summary:Offers an account of the struggle for black modernism in the United States. This book combines historical considerations with psychoanalysis, personal memoir, and whiteness studies to argue t…	OL4315233W
Race and Schooling in the South, 1880-1950	Robert A. Margo	The interrelation among race, schooling, and labor market opportunities of American blacks can help us make sense of the relatively poor economic status of blacks in contemporary society. The role of…	OL4449156W
Black ballots	Steven F. Lawson	A thorough historical treatment of suffrage expansion in the South from World War II through the Johnson administration. Black Ballots is an in-depth look at suffrage expansion in the South from Wor…	OL491366W
Folk beliefs of the southern Negro	Newbell Niles Puckett	Originally produced as for a Doctorate of Philosophy at Yale, this remarkable history of twenty or so years of Black life in the South is fascinating. Centering around folklore and superstition, it d…	OL6440771W
The punished self	Alex Bontemps	"The Punished Self describes enslavement in the American South during the eighteenth century as a systematic assault on blacks' sense of self. Alex Bontemps explores slavery's effects on the captives…	OL7307234W
Geography Of Hope:Black Exodus	James Haskins	Discusses the conditions of African Americans in the South before, during, and after the Civil War, and the migration of many former slaves, led by such men as Benjamin Singleton and Henry Adams, to …	OL7987017W