Writing the South through the self : explorations in southern autobiography

Writing the South through the self : explorations in southern autobiography / John C. Inscoe.

Author/creator	Inscoe, John C., 1951-
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2011.
Description	xv, 249 pages ; 23 cm
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 conditions.

Contents	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 pretty fed up with this two-tone South" : moving toward multiculturalism.
General note	"Published in association with the Georgia Humanities Council."
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-239) and index.
LCCN	2010032652
ISBN	9780820337678 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN	0820337676 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN	9780820337685 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN	0820337684 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	F208 .I67 2011	✔ Available	Place Hold