University of North Carolina Press, 1995 Marvin Kay and Lorin Cary’s new book is an important study of the system of slavery in colonial North Carolina. As the authors correctly point out, most monographs on slavery concentrate on the antebellum period, often focusing exclusively on the last twenty years of southern slavery. This bias in »
New Orleans Museum of Art, 1993 The exhibition catalog Passionate Visions of the American South embraces a diverse and engaging assemblage of contemporary plain artists. From 1993 to 1995 the exhibition traveled to New Orleans, Berkeley, San Diego, Washington, D.C., and finally to Raleigh; the accompanying catalog is a substantial volume. Although it relies too heavily on »
University Press of Virginia, 1996 Cleanth Brooks (1906-1994)- in his later years when his hair had turned shiningly white and when, as his biographer Mark Royden Winchell amply notes, his blue eyes actually did seem to “twinkle”- bore a resemblance to Clarence Oddsbody, the angel sent to rescue George Bailey from despair and suicide in »
University Press of Kentucky, 1995 “Women knew that a land where men were contented, uncontradicted and safe in possession of unpunctured vanity was likely to be a very pleasant place for women to live. So, from the cradle to the grave, women strove to make men pleased with themselves, and the satisfied men repaid lavishly »
University of Georgia Press, 1994 In this rich and dense volume, Charles Hudson and Carmen Chaves Tesser have brought together anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians to reconstruct the world of southeastern interior American Indians in die two centuries between initial Spanish contact and the English founding of Charles Town. These are forgotten centuries, according to the »
University of Georgia Press, 1995 Kent Anderson Leslie’s recent monograph, Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege, contributes to a small but growing body of literature that addresses the experiences of racially mixed people in both the Old and New South. A group that seldom fit neatly into the South’s carefully delineated, bifurcated racial order, mixed-race »
Texas A&M University Press, 1996 The five essays in Southern Writers and Their Worlds confirm literary critic Jefferson Humphries’s assertion that “it is no longer possible to separate the literary from the historical.” Specifically, each piece in this volume assumes the same goal: to untangle the precarious relation between a text and its author’s expressly »
Algonquin Books, 1995 From title to last page, Constance Curry’s book offers testimony to the ingenuity and resourcefulness, the moral imagination of certain hard-pressed black people in the rural South. These individuals stood up to the overwhelming power of landowners and sheriffs and politicians, enduring slurs and threats and bullets and clubs so that a »
The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, distributed by the University of North Carolina Press, 1994 Long ignored for their primitive methods, relative isolation, and utilitarian output, southern potters have staged a remarkable comeback over the last two decades. The living tradition continues in numerous small, family-run shops across the Southeast, »
HarperCollins, 1994 For the past half century or so, scholars and social critics have sought to understand the often ambiguous relationship between sectionalism and nationalism. Examining a unique cluster of political, economic, cultural, and geographic factors, students ofthe South in particular have asked how much and to what extent uniquely regional characteristics have survived into »
Westview Press, 1996 Finally it is official. Our mothers and fathers warned us it was true. The playground bully showed us it was true. Newspapers, magazines, and television told us so. Over and over, Glasgow, Wolfe, Caldwell, and Faulkner convinced us ofit. Now that two social scientists have proved it, it must surely be the »
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1996 The appearance of Alex Haley’s Roots as a television miniseries in the 1970s stimulated many black Americans to search for their family origins in slavery and Africa. A similar passion drove a group of Floridians to excavate the layers of sediment that kept hidden from all but a few of their »