The Making of a Southerner

The Making of a Southerner
Title The Making of a Southerner PDF eBook
Author Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin
Publisher University of Georgia Press
Pages 281
Release 1992-02-01
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0820313858

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Tells the life story of the author, an African American woman who experienced the hardships and prejudices of life in the South

The Making of a Racist

The Making of a Racist
Title The Making of a Racist PDF eBook
Author Charles B. Dew
Publisher University of Virginia Press
Pages 196
Release 2016-08-09
Genre History
ISBN 0813938880

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In this powerful memoir, Charles Dew, one of America’s most respected historians of the South--and particularly its history of slavery--turns the focus on his own life, which began not in the halls of enlightenment but in a society unequivocally committed to segregation. Dew re-creates the midcentury American South of his childhood--in many respects a boy’s paradise, but one stained by Lost Cause revisionism and, worse, by the full brunt of Jim Crow. Through entertainments and "educational" books that belittled African Americans, as well as the living examples of his own family, Dew was indoctrinated in a white supremacy that, at best, was condescendingly paternalistic and, at worst, brutally intolerant. The fear that southern culture, and the "hallowed white male brotherhood," could come undone through the slightest flexibility in the color line gave the Jim Crow mindset its distinctly unyielding quality. Dew recalls his father, in most regards a decent man, becoming livid over a black tradesman daring to use the front, and not the back, door. The second half of the book shows how this former Confederate youth and descendant of Thomas Roderick Dew, one of slavery’s most passionate apologists, went on to reject his racist upbringing and become a scholar of the South and its deeply conflicted history. The centerpiece of Dew’s story is his sobering discovery of a price circular from 1860--an itemized list of humans up for sale. Contemplating this document becomes Dew’s first step in an exploration of antebellum Richmond’s slave trade that investigates the terrible--but, to its white participants, unremarkable--inhumanity inherent in the institution. Dew’s wish with this book is to show how the South of his childhood came into being, poisoning the minds even of honorable people, and to answer the question put to him by Illinois Browning Culver, the African American woman who devoted decades of her life to serving his family: "Charles, why do the grown-ups put so much hate in the children?"

Like a Family

Like a Family
Title Like a Family PDF eBook
Author Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
Publisher UNC Press Books
Pages 541
Release 2012-12-30
Genre History
ISBN 0807882941

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Since its original publication in 1987, Like a Family has become a classic in the study of American labor history. Basing their research on a series of extraordinary interviews, letters, and articles from the trade press, the authors uncover the voices and experiences of workers in the Southern cotton mill industry during the 1920s and 1930s. Now with a new afterword, this edition stands as an invaluable contribution to American social history. "The genius of Like a Family lies in its effortless integration of the history of the family--particularly women--into the history of the cotton-mill world.--Ira Berlin, New York Times Book Review "Like a Family is history, folklore, and storytelling all rolled into one. It is a living, revelatory chronicle of life rarely observed by the academe. A powerhouse.--Studs Terkel "Here is labor history in intensely human terms. Neither great impersonal forces nor deadening statistics are allowed to get in the way of people. If students of the New South want both the dimensions and the feel of life and labor in the textile industry, this book will be immensely satisfying.--Choice

The Making of a Southern Democracy

The Making of a Southern Democracy
Title The Making of a Southern Democracy PDF eBook
Author Tom Eamon
Publisher UNC Press Books
Pages 418
Release 2014
Genre History
ISBN 1469606976

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Making of a Southern Democracy: North Carolina Politics from Kerr Scott to Pat McCrory

The Edible South

The Edible South
Title The Edible South PDF eBook
Author Marcie Cohen Ferris
Publisher UNC Press Books
Pages 494
Release 2014
Genre Cooking
ISBN 1469617684

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Edible South: The Power of Food and the Making of an American Region

Subversive Southerner

Subversive Southerner
Title Subversive Southerner PDF eBook
Author Catherine Fosl
Publisher University Press of Kentucky
Pages 466
Release 2006-08-01
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0813191726

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With a Foreword by Angela Y. Davis Winner of the 2003 Oral History Association Book AwardWinner of the 2003 Gustavus Myers Center for Human Rights Outstanding Book Award Anne McCarty Braden (1924-2006) was a courageous southern white woman who in the late 1940s rejected her segregationist and privileged past to become a lifelong crusader against racial discrimination. Arousing the conscience of white southerners to the reality of racial injustice, Braden was branded a communist and seditionist by southern politicians who used McCarthyism to buttress legal and institutional segregation as it came under fire in deferral courts. She became, nevertheless, one of the civil rights movement's staunchest white allies and one of five southern whites commended by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in his 1963 "Letter from Birmingham Jail." Although Braden remained a controversial figure even in the movement, her commitment superseded her radical reputation, and she became a mentor and advisor to students who launched the 1960s sit-ins and to successive generations of peace and justice activists. In this riveting, oral history-based biography, Catherine Fosl also offers a social history of how racism, sexism, and anticommunism overlapped in the twentieth-century south and how ripples from the Cold War divided and limited the southern civil rights movement.

Confederate Tide Rising

Confederate Tide Rising
Title Confederate Tide Rising PDF eBook
Author Joseph L. Harsh
Publisher Kent State University Press
Pages 316
Release 1998
Genre Confederate States of America
ISBN 9780873385800

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This analysis of the military policy and strategy adopted by Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis in the first two years of the Civil War, argues that their policies allowed the Confederacy to survive longer than it otherwise could have and were the policies best designed to win Southern independence.