Sharecropper Myrtle Lawrence and the Southern Tenant Farmer’s Union. Scottish heritage, southern style. Southern food, German style. The Sally Hemmings story. Why Appalachians are mountains and a people. Songs of the Gastonia Textile Strike. Soul food. And history, privilege, and forgetting in the next generation of students. Dig in to Summer 1998!
"A quick check of the Internet reveals three categories and 540 separate Web sites containing the keyword 'identity.'"
"How one woman transcended regional and gender stereotypes in her pursuit of justice for tenant farmers, black and white."
"Scottish and southern heritages meld into a new kind of southern identity, one founded on lost causes but refashioned for today's South."
"Did the 'truth' about the president's affair with a slave woman matter to his contemporaries? The answer may surprise you."
A boy of four, he killed one of the King's overlords for casting a desirous eye on his mother, and stowed away to sail the whale road.
University of Georgia Press, 1996
University of Georgia Press, 1997
Louisiana State University Press, 1996
University of Georgia Press, 1996
University of North Carolina Press, 1995
University of Georgia Press, 1995
Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. University Press of Virginia, 1995.
Westview Press, 1997
University of North Carolina Press, 1995
The University of Tennessee Press, 1996
University of Alabama Press, 1997
The University of Alabama Press, 1996
University of North Carolina Press, 1997
"…southerners can be distinguished by what goes into their mouths and what comes out of them."
Because Germans have been in the South for over 250 years, they have blended more completely into southern culture than, say, Germans in Pittsburgh or Detroit.
Although songs of social protest had deep roots in the American South, the Gastonia strike marked one of the first labor conflicts in the region that produced a large repertoire of protest songs written specifically for the occasion.
My students last summer had never heard of Jim Crow.
