LEADER 04905nam 2200649 450 001 9910809984503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4968-0412-0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000603896 035 $a(EBL)4438669 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001624175 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16517373 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001624175 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)13833347 035 $a(PQKB)10538977 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16042147 035 $a(PQKB)23922294 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4438669 035 $a(OCoLC)911200072 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse47258 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4438669 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11170691 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL898298 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000603896 100 $a20150522d2015 ub| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe possible South $edocumentary film and the limitations of biraciality /$fR. Bruce Brasell 210 1$aJackson :$cUniversity Press of Mississippi,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (313 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4968-0408-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 271-291)000 and index. 327 $aCover; The Possible South; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction-Southern Discourse, Mediated Distinctiveness, and the Devaluation of the Audiovisual; Part I: Biraciality and Southern Discourse 327 $aChapter One-"Experience our past as part of your future": Biraciality and Tell About the South, Cultural Citizenship, and Bi-Civic Heritage Chapter Two-"God-created difference": Racial Performance, Regional Exceptionalism, and broken/ground ; Part II: Biracial Denial One-Miscegenation 327 $aChapter Three-"In slave time you know everything happened": The Racial Closet, Southeastern Expatriate Road Film, and Family Name Chapter Four-Praying Pigs and Wooden Peg Legs: Racial Poaching, Redemptive Ethnography, and 1970's Southeastern Documentaries 327 $aPart III: Biracial Denial Two-Existence of Other Races and Ethnicities Chapter Five-"Wonder if our culture will survive": Racial In-Betweenness, Cultural Preservation, and the Sound of Ethnicity in Mosquitoes and High Water, Living in America, and Nuestra Communidad 327 $aChapter Six-"So that we have our own color": Racial Negotiation, Textual Posturing, and Mississippi Triangle Chapter Seven-"Too much bad blood": Racial Legitimacy, Representational Strategies, and Real Indian; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography ; Index 330 $a"Using cultural theory, author R. Bruce Brasell investigates issues surrounding the discursive presentation of the American South as biracial and explores its manifestation in documentary films, including such works as Tell about the South, bro-ken/ground, and Family Name. After considering the emergence of the region's biraciality through a consideration of the concepts of racial citizenry and racial performativity, Brasell examines two problems associated with this framework. First, the framework assumes racial purity, and, second, it assumes that two races exist. In other words, biraciality enacts two denials, first, the existence of miscegenation in the region and, second, the existence of other races and ethnicities. Brasell considers bodily miscegenation, discussing the racial closet and the Southeastern expatriate road film. Then he examines cultural miscegenation through the lens of racial poaching and 1970s southeastern documentaries that use redemptive ethnography. In the subsequent chapters, using specific documentary films, he considers the racial in-betweenness of Spanish-speaking ethnicities (Mosquitoes and High Water, Living in America, Nuestra Communidad), probes issues related to the process of racial negotiation experienced by Asian Americans as they seek a racial position beyond the black and white binary (Mississippi Triangle), and engages the problem of racial legitimacy confronted by federally non-recognized Native groups as they attempt the same feat (Real Indian)"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aCultural pluralism$zSouthern States 606 $aDocumentary films$zUnited States$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aCultural pluralism 615 0$aDocumentary films$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a305.800975 686 $aPER004030$aHIS036120$aSOC031000$2bisacsh 700 $aBrasell$b R. Bruce$01624942 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809984503321 996 $aThe possible South$93960172 997 $aUNINA