| Description |
xv, 249 p. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 fed up with this two-tone South" : moving toward ulticulturalism. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Autobiography -- Social aspects -- Southern States.
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Autobiography -- Psychological aspects -- Southern States.
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Race discrimination -- Southern States.
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Miscegenation -- Southern States.
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Social stratification -- Southern States.
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Segregation in transportation -- Southern States.
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College students -- Southern States -- Attitudes.
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Southern States -- Biography.
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Southern States -- Social conditions.
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Appalachian Region -- Social conditions.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780820337678 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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0820337676 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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9780820337685 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0820337684 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780820339689 (electronic bk.) |
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