04516nam 22008173u 450 991045343220332120210107015243.00-19-029537-60-19-972745-7(CKB)2550000001204470(EBL)430569(SSID)ssj0001039117(PQKBManifestationID)12338402(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001039117(PQKBWorkID)11058113(PQKB)11543145(MiAaPQ)EBC430569(EXLCZ)99255000000120447020151123d2007|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtccrSterling A. Brown's A Negro Looks at the South[electronic resource]Oxford University Press, USA20071 online resource (652 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-531399-2 Contents; A Note on the Text; Looking at Sterling A. Brown's South: An Introduction; Prologue; "South on the Move"; "Out of Their Mouths"; By Way of Autobiography; "Old Buck"; "Old Man McCorkle"; "Bus Station"; "Club Car"; "Roommate"; "Return of the Native"; Jim Crow Journal; "On the Government"; "V for Victory"; "Jim Crow Snapshots"; "A Harvardian Goes South"; "Separate but Equal"; "Fats"; "Words on a Bus"; "Georgia Nymphs"; "And/Or"; Gone with the Wind; "I Look at the Old South"; "Sister Cities"; Gone with What Wind"; "Symbol of the Old South"; "A Tour of History: Old New Orleans""Gee's Bend""Low Cotton"; "Take Your Coat Off, Gene!"; "Insurance Executive"; "Let's Look at Your Base"; "Meekness in Bronze"; "No Ties That Bind"; Academic Retreat; "The Little Gray Schoolhouse"; "The Path to Alcorn"; "And Gladly Teach"; "What Could Freddie Say?"; "One Language, One People"; "Vicious Circle"; "The Palmer Case"; "Signs of Improvement"; "Colleges: Retreat or Reconnaissance"; Pursuit of Happiness; "And He Never Said a Mumbalin' Word"; "Song Hunter"; "The Duke Comes to Atlanta"; "Farewell to Basin Street"; "Po' Wanderin' Pildom, Miserus Chile"; "Jitterbugs' Joy""From Montmartre to Beaver Slide"Men of War; "Soldiers of Construction"; "Cubs"; "Primary Field"; Epilogue; "Count Us In"; Annotations; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; ZUsing oral history and the printed word, Sterling A. Brown set out during the Second World War to capture the response of African Americans, primarily living in the South, to America's involvement in the war and how it affected them. These responses, brought together in extended, non-fiction essays of many different types, illustrate the diversity of opinions in the Black South about the war and the war period in America. For nearly sixty years, the excerpts that were never published languished in Brown's manuscript collection at Howard University. Now, for the first time, all of the completedAfrican AmericansCommunity lifeCountry lifeOral historyAfrican AmericansSocial life and customs20th centurySouthern StatesBiographyAfrican AmericansSocial conditions20th centurySouthern StatesAfrican AmericansHistory20th centurySouthern StatesOral historyHistory20th CenturySouthern StatesCountry lifeSouthern StatesCommunity lifeGender & Ethnic StudiesHILCCSocial SciencesHILCCEthnic & Race StudiesHILCCElectronic books.African Americans.Community life.Country life.Oral history.African AmericansSocial life and customsAfrican AmericansSocial conditionsAfrican AmericansHistoryOral historyHistoryCountry lifeCommunity lifeGender & Ethnic StudiesSocial SciencesEthnic & Race Studies940.5308996073975/.00496073Sanders Mark A882181Tidwell John Edgar864577AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910453432203321Sterling A. Brown's A Negro Looks at the South1970513UNINA