The Ballad Of Little River
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The Ballad Of Little River
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Author : Paul Hemphill
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2010-05-08
The Ballad Of Little River written by Paul Hemphill and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-08 with History categories.
Except for a massacre of five hundred settlers by renegade Creek Indians in the early 1800s, not much bad had happened during two centuries in Little River, Alabama, an obscure Lost Colony in the swampy woodlands of To Kill a Mockingbird country. "We're stuck down here being poor together" is how one native described the hamlet of about two hundred people, half black and half white. But in 1997, racial violence hit Little River like a thunderclap. A young black man was killed while trying to break into a white family's trailer at night, a beloved white store owner was nearly bludgeoned to death by a black ex-convict, and finally a marauding band of white kids torched a black church and vandalized another during a drunken wilding soon after a Ku Klux Klan rally. The Ballad of Little River is a narrative of that fateful year, an anatomy of one of the many church arsons across the South in the late 1990s. It is also much more -- a biography of a place that seemed, on the cusp of the millennium, stuck in another time. When veteran journalist Paul Hemphill, the son of an Alabama truck driver who has written extensively on the blue-collar South, moved into Little River, he discovered the flip side of what the natives like to call "God's country": a dot on the map far from the mainstream of American life, a forlorn cluster of poverty and ignorance and dead-end jobs in the dark, snake-infested forests, a world that time forgot. Living alongside the citizens of Little River, Hemphill discovered a stew of characters right out of fiction -- "Peanut" Ferguson, "Doll" Boone, "Hoss" Mack, Joe Dees, Murray January, a Klansman named "Brother Phil," and his stripper wife known as "Wild Child" -- swirling into a maelstrom of insufferable heat, malicious gossip, ancient grudges, and unresolved racial animosities. His story of how their lives intertwined serves, as well, as a chilling cautionary tale about the price that must be paid for living in virtual isolation during a time of unprecedented growth in America. God's country is in deep trouble.
The Ballad Of Little River
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Author : Paul Hemphill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
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A son of the South investigates the torching of a rural black church by five teenagers and discovers that 50 years of civil rights and social progress haven't touched "To Kill a Mockingbird" country.
The Ballad Of Little River
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Author : Paul Hemphill
language : en
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Release Date : 2001
The Ballad Of Little River written by Paul Hemphill and has been published by University Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
More than an anatomy of a church arson, The Ballad of Little River is a poignant but hard-hitting biography of one of the poorest areas in the United States--where deer outnumber people. A cauldron of unresolved racial and familial conflict, of heat, boredom, gossip, and grudges, Little River, Alabama, gained notoriety in 1997 as the site of the U.S. government's first conviction under a new hate-crimes law intended to stop a rash of fires set at black churches around the country.
The Little River
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1959
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Race Still Matters
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Author : Yuya Kiuchi
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2016-11-15
Race Still Matters written by Yuya Kiuchi and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-15 with Social Science categories.
Essays debunking the notion that contemporary America is a colorblind society. More than half a century after the civil rights era of the mid-1950s to the late 1960s, American society is often characterized as postracial. In other words, that the country has moved away from prejudice based on skin color and we live in a colorblind society. The reality, however, is the opposite. African Americans continue to face both explicit and latent discriminations in housing, healthcare, education, and every facet of their lives. Recent cases involving law enforcement officers shooting unarmed Black men also attest to the reality: the problem of the twenty-first century is still the problem of the color line. In Race Still Matters, contributors drawn from a wide array of disciplines use multidisciplinary methods to explore topics such as Black family experiences, hate crimes, race and popular culture, residual discrimination, economic and occupational opportunity gaps, healthcare disparities, education, law enforcement issues, youth culture, and the depiction of Black female athletes. The volume offers irrefutable evidence that race still very much matters in the United States today. Yuya Kiuchi is Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at Michigan State University and the author of Struggles for Equal Voice: The History of African American Media Democracy, also published by SUNY Press.
Out In The Country
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Author : Mary L. Gray
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2009-08-01
Out In The Country written by Mary L. Gray and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-01 with Social Science categories.
Winner of the 2009 Ruth Benedict Prize for Outstanding Monograph from the Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association, Sociology of Sexualities Section Winner of the 2010 Congress Inaugural Qualitative Inquiry Book Award Honorable Mention An unprecedented contemporary account of the online and offline lives of rural LGBT youth From Wal-Mart drag parties to renegade Homemaker’s Clubs, Out in the Country offers an unprecedented contemporary account of the lives of today’s rural queer youth. Mary L. Gray maps out the experiences of young people living in small towns across rural Kentucky and along its desolate Appalachian borders, providing a fascinating and often surprising look at the contours of gay life beyond the big city. Gray illustrates that, against a backdrop of an increasingly impoverished and privatized rural America, LGBT youth and their allies visibly—and often vibrantly—work the boundaries of the public spaces available to them, whether in their high schools, public libraries, town hall meetings, churches, or through websites. This important book shows that, in addition to the spaces of Main Street, rural LGBT youth explore and carve out online spaces to fashion their emerging queer identities. Their triumphs and travails defy clear distinctions often drawn between online and offline experiences of identity, fundamentally redefining our understanding of the term ‘queer visibility’ and its political stakes. Gray combines ethnographic insight with incisive cultural critique, engaging with some of the biggest issues facing both queer studies and media scholarship. Out in the Country is a timely and groundbreaking study of sexuality and gender, new media, youth culture, and the meaning of identity and social movements in a digital age.
The Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood The Ballad And Song Writers The Religious Poets
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Author : Henry Fitz Randolph
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1887
The Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood The Ballad And Song Writers The Religious Poets written by Henry Fitz Randolph and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1887 with Ballads, English categories.
Fifty Years Of English Song The Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood The Ballad And Song Writers The Religious Poets
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Author : Henry Fitz Randolph
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1887
Fifty Years Of English Song The Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood The Ballad And Song Writers The Religious Poets written by Henry Fitz Randolph and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1887 with Ballads, English categories.
The Ballad Of Ballard And Sandrine
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Author : Peter Straub
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2012-07-17
The Ballad Of Ballard And Sandrine written by Peter Straub and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-17 with Fiction categories.
Peter Straub masterfully weaves horror and suspense into a love story unlike any other: the ballad of Ballard and Sandrine. Ballard and his considerably younger lover Sandrine have been brought together by a shared erotic obsession of the darkest kind. As they travel down a remote part of the Amazon River on a luxurious yacht, they spend their days indulging in their macabre pastime. Through a haze of pain and pleasure, the lovers are witness to a series of increasingly sinister portents, dreams and visions that haunt their claustrophobic and disturbing world. With Peter Straub’s signature, breathtaking twists and an astonishing climax, you’ll never forget The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine.
Book Review Digest
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Book Review Digest written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Bibliography categories.