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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910818430003321
• Autore: Inscoe John C. <1951->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Athens [Ga.], : University of Georgia Press, c2011
• ISBN: 1-283-11037-7; 9786613110374; 0-8203-3968-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (268 p.)
• Disciplina: 975
• Soggetti: Autobiography - Social aspects - Southern States; Autobiography - Psychological aspects - Southern States; Race discrimination - Southern States; Miscegenation (Racist theory) - 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
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Published in association with the Georgia Humanities Council."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Drawing on two decades of teaching a college-level course on southern ; history as viewed through autobiography and memoir, John C. Inscoe has crafted a series of essays exploring the southern experience as reflected in the life stories of those who lived it.