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Sitting in Darkness
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Peter Schmidt |
Sitting in Darkness explores how fiction of the Reconstruction and the New South intervenes in debates over black schools, citizen-building, Jim Crow discrimination, and U.S. foreign policy towards i… |
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There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster
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Chester Hartman |
There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster is the first critical scholarly book on the catastrophic impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans. The disaster will go down in record as one of the wor… |
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Fight against fear
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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… |
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Southern Journeys
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Richard Starnes |
Examines tourism as a complicated and vital force in southern United States history, culture and economics. |
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Southern Local Color
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Barbara C. Ewell,Mark Twain,George Washington Cable,Joel Chandler Harris,Kate Chopin,Pamela Glenn Menke |
Conflict, exoticism, sensuality, eccentricity, and the sheer differences of the American South pervade this lively anthology, the first in fifty years to focus exclusively on the nineteenth-century t… |
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Carver, a Life in Poems
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Marilyn Nelson |
George Washington Carver was born a slave in Missouri about 1864 and was raised by the childless white couple who had owned his mother. In 1877 he left home in search of an education, eventually earn… |
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Lonely Hunters
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James T. Sears |
This is the story of Southern gays and lesbians in the twenty-year span between the end of World War II and the Stonewall Riot that sparked widespread gay rights consciousness. Across the United Stat… |
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The art of the old South
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Jessie J. Poesch |
xii, 384 pages : 32 cm |
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The punished self
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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… |
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