Books

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You have seen their faces You have seen their faces Erskine Caldwell Erskine Caldwell and Margaret Bourke-White have combined their considerable talents to produce an incisive, sensitive statement about the relation between the poverty of the people and the depletion … OL1164843W
Out in the South Out in the South Carlos L Dews In this book gays and lesbians from the Deep South to East Texas and Appalachia speak from vivid personal experience and turn an analytical eye on the South and its culture. Some contributors examine… OL15179612W
The bloody shirt The bloody shirt Stephen Budiansky A narrative account of Reconstruction-era violence documents vigilante attacks on African Americans and their white allies, in an analysis that traces the period through the careers of two Union offi… OL18532841W
Sweet Tea Sweet Tea E. Patrick Johnson,Jane M. Saks This book is the stage version of E. Patrick Johnson’s Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South—An Oral History, a groundbreaking text for the fields of Black studies, queer studies, and southern oral h… OL24583725W
Lonely Hunters Lonely Hunters 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… OL2674836W
Life in Black and White Life in Black and White Brenda E. Stevenson Life in the old South has always fascinated Americans--whether in the mythical portrayals of the planter elite from fiction such as Gone With the Wind or in historical studies that look inside the sl… OL2919427W
The insolent slave The insolent slave William E. Wiethoff "While scholars of American history have written extensively about slave insurgency in the form of rebellion, William E. Wiethoff considers a more subtle form of resistance that caused considerable c… OL2928048W
Southern history across the color line Southern history across the color line Nell Irvin Painter "In this collection, Painter reaches across the color line to examine how race, gender, class, and individual subjectivity shaped the lives of black and white women and men in the nineteenth- and twe… OL2978164W
Southern women at the seven sister colleges Southern women at the seven sister colleges Joan Marie Johnson 229 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm OL5732476W
South by southwest South by southwest James David Miller "In exploring what planter mobility reveals about planter identity and culture, South by Southwest blends analysis of both public and private responses to emigration and in so doing illuminates the w… OL5952866W
Dixie Dixie Curtis Wilkie "Dixie is a political and social history of the South during the second half of the twentieth century told from Curtis Wilkie's perspective as a white man intimately transformed by enormous racial an… OL6210138W
African American southerners in slavery, Civil War, and Reconstruction African American southerners in slavery, Civil War, and Reconstruction Claude H. Nolen "This work documents the many roles filled by Southern blacks in the last decades of slavery, the Civil War years, and the following period of Reconstruction. African Americans suffered and resisted … OL6211522W
Driving with the Devil Driving with the Devil Neal Thompson "Moonshiners put more time, energy, thought, and love into their cars than any racer ever will. Lose on the track and you go home. Lose with a load of whiskey and you go to jail." --Junior Johnson, N… OL8198349W