Life And Death In A Small Southern Town
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Life And Death In A Small Southern Town
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Author : Gayle Graham Yates
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 2004-05-01
Life And Death In A Small Southern Town written by Gayle Graham Yates and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-05-01 with History categories.
Gayle Graham Yates's hometown sits on the banks of the Chickasawhay River, boasting the live oak, dogwood, and magnolia trees found throughout southern Mississippi. Like any place, Shubuta (population 650) is inhabited by good people and bad, by virtue and vice. Both a literary memoir and a cultural history, this book chronicles Yates's return to the town in which she first knew goodness and came to recognize immorality. Blending folklore and personal impressions with the words of Shubuta people telling their own stories, Yates offers a rich narrative of the town from its Choctaw prehistory through the tremendous economic, political, racial, and social changes that led to its present. The author's pilgrimage leads us to the Hanging Bridge, where some black Shubutans were lynched; to a bank that did not fail during the Great Depression; and to the office of the doctor who tends broken hearts as well as broken arms. Yates takes us to Shubuta's most beautiful gardens and ugliest vacant lots, to all the stores in town, to the new post office, and to the town hall. In the process, we learn how Shubuta evolved from a racially stratified town to one in which the descendants of slaves are now political leaders, librarians, business owners, and police officials. Yates also tells of her own moral journey from judgmental young activist to middle-aged scholar mellowed by experience, travel, and reading who sees her home with newfound compassion. Ultimately, she shows us Small Town southern America: a strong, frail, fascinating, and complex human community.
The Death And Life Of Main Street
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Author : Miles Orvell
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2012-10-01
The Death And Life Of Main Street written by Miles Orvell and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-01 with Social Science categories.
For more than a century, the term "Main Street" has conjured up nostalgic images of American small-town life. Representations exist all around us, from fiction and film to the architecture of shopping malls and Disneyland. All the while, the nation has become increasingly diverse, exposing tensions within this ideal. In The Death and Life of Main Street, Miles Orvell wrestles with the mythic allure of the small town in all its forms, illustrating how Americans continue to reinscribe these images on real places in order to forge consensus about inclusion and civic identity, especially in times of crisis. Orvell underscores the fact that Main Street was never what it seemed; it has always been much more complex than it appears, as he shows in his discussions of figures like Sinclair Lewis, Willa Cather, Frank Capra, Thornton Wilder, Margaret Bourke-White, and Walker Evans. He argues that translating the overly tidy cultural metaphor into real spaces--as has been done in recent decades, especially in the new urbanist planned communities of Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Andres Duany--actually diminishes the communitarian ideals at the center of this nostalgic construct. Orvell investigates the way these tensions play out in a variety of cultural realms and explores the rise of literary and artistic traditions that deliberately challenge the tropes and assumptions of small-town ideology and life.
Desiree
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Author : Joseph Inge
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-05-17
Desiree written by Joseph Inge and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-17 with categories.
DESIREE, DEATH IN A SMALL SOUTHERN TOWN is a view into the mind of an aging playboy who has cheated once too often. It's a love story told from an entirely different perspective. Its twists and turns will elicit tears, laughter, and anger. An insightful look at relationships between men and women, DESIREE is not your typical lover's tale! Set in a small military town in southeast Georgia, it is a mystery that peels back enticingly; unraveling slowly until its unforeseen conclusion. It's the story of the romance between Desiree McKensie and Ace Edwards, two lonely people who, after years of searching, find comfort in one another's arms. Married to other people, their comfort is short-lived. And the revelation of their affair changes each of their lives forever. Ace, the unlikely hero seeks solace in booze and women, while Desiree continues her life parallel to, but apart from his. They go on separately for years until the fateful night of her death. It's at this point that our hero begins to question his values; his relationships ...His sanity. With the aid of his life-long gal-pal, Ace sets out to solve the mystery of his lover's death. What he discovers along the way is his own heart-wrenching past, revisited in ways that he could never have imagined. His search forces him to examine the most significant relationships of his life. He, inevitably, learns to appreciate the one woman who has always been there for him. Unfortunately, he may never survive to express his newfound appreciation. DESIREE, death in a small southern town is a thought-provoking page-turner that will transport you to small town Georgia with its tall fragrant pines, stately moss-draped oaks, and whispery, gossipy nights. I know that you'll enjoy reading this beautiful chronicle as much as I've enjoyed presenting it.
My Soul Is A Witness
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Author : Mari N. Crabtree
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2023-01-10
My Soul Is A Witness written by Mari N. Crabtree and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-10 with History categories.
An intimate look at the afterlife of lynching through the personal stories of Black victims and survivors who lived through and beyond its trauma Mari N. Crabtree traces the long afterlife of lynching in the South through the traumatic memories it left in its wake. She unearths how African American victims and survivors found ways to live through and beyond the horrors of lynching, offering a theory of African American collective trauma and memory rooted in the ironic spirit of the blues sensibility—a spirit of misdirection and cunning that blends joy and pain. Black southerners often shielded their loved ones from the most painful memories of local lynchings with strategic silences but also told lynching stories about vengeful ghosts or a wrathful God or the deathbed confessions of a lyncher tormented by his past. They protested lynching and its legacies through art and activism, and they mourned those lost to a mob’s fury. They infused a blues element into their lynching narratives to confront traumatic memories and keep the blues at bay, even if just for a spell. Telling their stories troubles the simplistic binary of resistance or submission that has tended to dominate narratives of Black life and reminds us that amid the utter devastation of lynching were glimmers of hope and an affirmation of life.
Hanging Bridge
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Author : Jason Morgan Ward
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016
Hanging Bridge written by Jason Morgan Ward and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with HISTORY categories.
"Even at the height of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, when the clarion call for equality and justice echoed around the country, few volunteers ventured into Clarke County, Mississippi. Fewer still remained. Located just south of Neshoba County, where three civil rights workers had been murdered during 1964's Freedom Summer, Clarke lay squarely in what many considered Mississippi's, and thus America's, meanest corner ... Ward ... traces a legacy of violence that reflects the American experience of race, from the depths of Jim Crow through to the growing power of the NAACP and national awareness of what was taking places even in the country's bleakest racial landscapes"--
Rethinking The Irish In The American South
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Author : Bryan Albin Giemza
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2013-05-03
Rethinking The Irish In The American South written by Bryan Albin Giemza and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-03 with History categories.
Studies of the Irish presence in America have tended to look to the main corridors of emigration, and hence outside the American South. Yet the Irish constituted a significant minority in the region. Indeed, the Irish fascination expresses itself in Southern context in powerful, but disparate, registers: music, literature, and often, a sense of shared heritage. Rethinking the Irish in the South aims to create a readable, thorough introduction to the subject, establishing new ground for areas of inquiry. These essays offer a revisionist critique of the Irish in the South, calling into question widely held understandings of how Irish culture was transmitted. The discussion ranges from Appalachian ballads, to Gone With the Wind, to the Irish rock band U2, to Atlantic-spanning literary friendships. Rather than seeing the Irish presence as "natural" or something completed in the past, these essays posit a shifting, evolving, and unstable influence. Taken collectively, they offer a new framework for interpreting the Irish in the region. The implications extend to the interpretation of migration patterns, to the understanding of Irish diaspora, and the assimilation of immigrants and their ideas
Set The World On Fire
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Author : Keisha N. Blain
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2018-01-18
Set The World On Fire written by Keisha N. Blain and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-18 with History categories.
In 1932, Mittie Maude Lena Gordon spoke to a crowd of black Chicagoans at the old Jack Johnson boxing ring, rallying their support for emigration to West Africa. In 1937, Celia Jane Allen traveled to Jim Crow Mississippi to organize rural black workers around black nationalist causes. In the late 1940s, from her home in Kingston, Jamaica, Amy Jacques Garvey launched an extensive letter-writing campaign to defend the Greater Liberia Bill, which would relocate 13 million black Americans to West Africa. Gordon, Allen, and Jacques Garvey—as well as Maymie De Mena, Ethel Collins, Amy Ashwood, and Ethel Waddell—are part of an overlooked and understudied group of black women who take center stage in Set the World on Fire, the first book to examine how black nationalist women engaged in national and global politics from the early twentieth century to the 1960s. Historians of the era generally portray the period between the Garvey movement of the 1920s and the Black Power movement of the 1960s as one of declining black nationalist activism, but Keisha N. Blain reframes the Great Depression, World War II, and the early Cold War as significant eras of black nationalist—and particularly, black nationalist women's—ferment. In Chicago, Harlem, and the Mississippi Delta, from Britain to Jamaica, these women built alliances with people of color around the globe, agitating for the rights and liberation of black people in the United States and across the African diaspora. As pragmatic activists, they employed multiple protest strategies and tactics, combined numerous religious and political ideologies, and forged unlikely alliances in their struggles for freedom. Drawing on a variety of previously untapped sources, including newspapers, government records, songs, and poetry, Set the World on Fire highlights the flexibility, adaptability, and experimentation of black women leaders who demanded equal recognition and participation in global civil society.
Life And Death In Narrow Creek
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Author : Patsy Pridgen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-11-10
Life And Death In Narrow Creek written by Patsy Pridgen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-10 with categories.
It's 1982, and Dee Ann Bulluck has enjoyed three peaceful years as a young wife, mother, and technical college instructor since moving to a backyard apartment in small-town Narrow Creek, North Carolina. Then her landlord Floyd Powell dies while sitting in his recliner on a calm Saturday morning. Turns out, his death is due to something more sinister than his diet of honey buns and Pepsi Colas, and the major suspect is Miss Josie, his wife of thirty-five years. Convinced of Miss Josie's innocence-and by the fact that if her landlady goes to jail, she and husband Joe will likely lose their sweet deal of an apartment-Dee Ann agrees to help Miss Josie prove her innocence. Their bumbling investigation manages to reveal Floyd's involvement in some unsavory enterprises, including bootlegging. The reappearance of Miss Josie's long-lost beau and the meddling of her overbearing, big-city daughter complicate their amateur sleuthing. Her landlord may be dead, but Dee Ann is busy with life: Monday night choir practice at the Methodist church, house-hunting with Joe, and controlling mischievous three-year-old Heather. She barely has time to hide in Miss Josie's closet to eavesdrop or creep through the woods looking for a still. Will Miss Josie wind up in the big house while Dee Ann ends up with no house? Like its heroine Dee Ann Bulluck, Life and Death in Narrow Creek is smart and sassy, witty and insightful. Readers will discover a cozy mystery warmed by the culture yet complicated by the social issues of the early 1980s in a small Southern town.
The Second Wave
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Author : Philip Scranton
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2001
The Second Wave written by Philip Scranton and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
Though it had helped define the New South era, the first wave of regional industrialization had clearly lost momentum even before the Great Depression. These nine original case studies look at how World War II and its aftermath transformed the economy, culture, and politics of the South. From perspectives grounded in geography, law, history, sociology, and economics, several contributors look at southern industrial sectors old and new: aircraft and defense, cotton textiles, timber and pulp, carpeting, oil refining and petrochemicals, and automobiles. One essay challenges the perception that southern industrial growth was spurred by a disproportionate share of federal investment during and after the war. In covering the variety of technological, managerial, and spatial transitions brought about by the South's "second wave" of industrialization, the case studies also identify a set of themes crucial to understanding regional dynamics: investment and development; workforce training; planning, cost-containment, and environmental concerns; equal employment opportunities; rural-to-urban shifts and the decay of local economies entrepreneurism; and coordination of supply, service, and manufacturing processes. From boardroom to factory floor, the variety of perspectives in The Second Wave will significantly widen our understanding of the dramatic reshaping of the region in the decades after 1940.
The Little Way Of Ruthie Leming
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Author : Rod Dreher
language : en
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Release Date : 2013-04-09
The Little Way Of Ruthie Leming written by Rod Dreher and has been published by Grand Central Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
THE LITTLE WAY OF RUTHIE LEMING follows Rod Dreher, a Philadelphia journalist, back to his hometown of St. Francisville, Louisiana (pop. 1,700) in the wake of his younger sister Ruthie's death. When she was diagnosed at age 40 with a virulent form of cancer in 2010, Dreher was moved by the way the community he had left behind rallied around his dying sister, a schoolteacher. He was also struck by the grace and courage with which his sister dealt with the disease that eventually took her life. In Louisiana for Ruthie's funeral in the fall of 2011, Dreher began to wonder whether the ordinary life Ruthie led in their country town was in fact a path of hidden grandeur, even spiritual greatness, concealed within the modest life of a mother and teacher. In order to explore this revelation, Dreher and his wife decided to leave Philadelphia, move home to help with family responsibilities and have their three children grow up amidst the rituals that had defined his family for five generations-Mardi Gras, L.S.U. football games, and deer hunting. As David Brooks poignantly described Dreher's journey homeward in a recent New York Times column, Dreher and his wife Julie "decided to accept the limitations of small-town life in exchange for the privilege of being part of a community."