Writing the South through the self [electronic resource] : explorations in southern autobiography / John C. Inscoe.
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TextPublication details: Athens [Ga.] : University of Georgia Press, c2011.Description: xv, 249 pSubject(s): - Autobiography -- Social aspects -- Southern States
- Autobiography -- Psychological aspects -- Southern States
- Race discrimination -- Southern States
- Miscegenation -- Southern States
- Social stratification -- Southern States
- Segregation in transportation -- Southern States
- College students -- Southern States -- Attitudes
- Southern States -- Biography
- Southern States -- Social conditions
- Appalachian Region -- Social conditions
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- F208 .I67 2011
Includes bibliographical references 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 fed up with this two-tone South" : moving toward ulticulturalism.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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