Writing the South through the self [electronic resource] : explorations in southern autobiography / John C. Inscoe.
By: Inscoe, John C.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc
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Publisher: Athens [Ga.] : University of Georgia Press, c2011Description: xv, 249 p.Subject(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 conditionsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 975 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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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. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.