Writing the South through the self [electronic resource] : explorations in southern autobiography / John C. Inscoe.

By: Inscoe, John C, 1951-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Athens [Ga.] : University of Georgia Press, c2011Description: xv, 249 pISBN: 9780820339689 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Autobiography -- Social aspects -- Southern States | Autobiography -- Psychological aspects -- Southern States | Race discrimination -- Southern States | Miscegenation -- Southern States | Social stratification -- Southern States | Segregation in transportation -- Southern States | College students -- Southern States -- Attitudes | Southern States -- Biography | Southern States -- Social conditions | Appalachian Region -- Social conditionsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 975 LOC classification: F208 | .I67 2011Online resources: Click to View
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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