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Memphis And The Paradox Of Place - Globalization In The American South

by Wanda Rushing

165,63€ + 10% CARD

 Celebrated as the home of the blues and the birthplace of rock and roll, Memphis, Tennessee, is where Elvis Presley, B B King, Johnny Cash, and other musical legends got their starts. Using this iconic southern city as a case study, this title explores the significance of place in a globalizing age.
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Southscapes - Geographies Of Race, Region, And Literature

by Thadious M. Davis

99,38€ + 10% CARD

 In this innovative approach to southern literary cultures, Thadious Davis analyses how black southern writers use their spatial location to articulate the vexed connections between society and environment, particularly under segregation and its legacies. Davis reveals how these writers reconstitute racial exclusion as creative black space, rather than a site of trauma and resistance.
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Baptized In Pcbs - Race, Pollution, And Justice In An All-American Town

by Ellen Griffith Spears

26,49€ + 10% CARD

 In the mid-1990s, residents of Anniston, Alabama, began a legal fight against the agrochemical company Monsanto over the dumping of PCBs in the city’s historically African American and white working-class west side. Simultaneously, Anniston environmentalists sought to safely eliminate chemical weaponry that had been secretly stockpiled near the city during the Cold War. In this probing work, Ellen Griffith Spears offers a compelling narrative of Anniston’s battles for environmental justice, exposing how systemic racial and class inequalities reinforced during the Jim Crow era played out in these intense contemporary social movements. Spears focuses attention on key figures who shaped Anniston — from Monsanto’s founders, to white and African American activists, to the ordinary Anniston residents whose lives and health were deeply affected by the town’s military-industrial history and the legacy of racism. Situating the personal struggles and triumphs of Anniston residents within a larger national story of regulatory regimes and legal strategies that have affected toxic towns across America, Spears unflinchingly explores the causes and implications of environmental inequalities, showing how civil rights movement activism undergirded Anniston’s campaigns for redemption and justice.
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Wounds Of Returning - Race, Memory, And Property On The Postslavery Plantation

by Jessica Adams

37,09€ + 10% CARD

 From Storyville brothels and narratives of turn-of-the-century New Orleans to plantation tours, Bette Davis films, Elvis memorials, Willa Cather's fiction, and the annual prison rodeo held at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, this title considers spatial and ideological evolutions of southern plantations after slavery.
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Lynching And Spectacle - Witnessing Racial Violence In America, 1890-1940

by Amy Louise Wood

37,09€ + 10% CARD

 Lynch mobs in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century America exacted horrifying public torture and mutilation on their victims. Here, Amy Wood explains what it meant for white Americans to perform and witness these sadistic spectacles and how lynching played a role in establishing and affirming white supremacy.
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Memphis And The Paradox Of Place - Globalization In The American South

by Wanda Rushing

33,11€ + 10% CARD

 Celebrated as the home of the blues and the birthplace of rock and roll, Memphis, Tennessee, is where Elvis Presley, B B King, Johnny Cash, and other musical legends got their starts. Using this iconic southern city as a case study, this title explores the significance of place in a globalizing age.
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Redefining The Immigrant South - Indian And Pakistani Immigration To Houston During The Cold War

by Uzma Quraishi

23,84€ + 10% CARD

 By the late twentieth century, Houston's South Asian community had become one of the most prosperous in the metropolitan area and one of the largest in the country. Mining archives and using new oral histories, Uzma Quraishi traces this pioneering community from its midcentury roots to the early twenty-first century.
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Hurtin' Words - Debating Family Problems In The Twentieth-Century South

by Ted Ownby

30,46€ + 10% CARD

 When Tammy Wynette sang â€œD-I-V-O-R-C-Eâ€, she famously said she â€œspelled out the hurtin' wordsâ€ to spare her child the pain of family breakup. In this innovative work, Ted Ownby considers how a wide range of writers, thinkers, activists, and others defined family problems in the twentieth-century American South.
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Beyond The Crossroads - The Devil And The Blues Tradition

by Adam Gussow

26,49€ + 10% CARD

 In this groundbreaking study, Adam Gussow takes the full measure of the devil's presence in the blues. Working from original transcriptions of more than 125 recordings released during the past ninety years, Gussow explores the varied uses to which black southern blues people have put this trouble-sowing, love-wrecking, but also empowering figure.
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This Ain'T Chicago - Race, Class, And Regional Identity In The Post-Soul South

by Zandria F. Robinson

25,16€ + 10% CARD

 When Zandria Robinson returned home to interview African Americans in Memphis, she was often greeted with some version of the caution ""I hope you know this ain't Chicago"". In this important new work, Robinson critiques ideas of black identity constructed through a northern lens and situates African Americans as central shapers of contemporary southern culture.
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Hard, Hard Religion - Interracial Faith In The Poor South

by John Hayes

26,49€ + 10% CARD

 In his captivating study of faith and class, John Hayes examines the ways folk religion in the early twentieth century allowed the South’s poor — both white and black — to listen, borrow, and learn from each other about what it meant to live as Christians in a world of severe struggle. Beneath the well-documented religious forms of the New South, people caught in the region’s poverty crafted a distinct folk Christianity that spoke from the margins of capitalist development, giving voice to modern phenomena like alienation and disenchantment. Through haunting songs of death, mystical tales of conversion, grassroots sacramental displays, and an ethic of neighborliness, impoverished folk Christians looked for the sacred in their midst and affirmed the value of this life in this world. From Tom Watson and W. E. B. Du Bois over a century ago to political commentators today, many have ruminated on how, despite material commonalities, the poor of the South have been perennially divided by racism. Through his excavation of a folk Christianity of the poor, which fused strands of African and European tradition into a new synthesis, John Hayes recovers a historically contingent moment of interracial exchange generated in hardship.
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Calypso Magnolia - The Crosscurrents Of Caribbean And Southern Literature

by John Wharton Lowe

26,49€ + 10% CARD

 In this literary history, John Wharton Lowe remakes the map of American culture by revealing the deep, persistent connections between the ideas and works produced by writers of the American South and the Caribbean. Lowe demonstrates that a tendency to separate literary canons by national and regional boundaries has led critics to ignore deep ties across highly permeable borders.
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Indicted South - Public Criticism, Southern Inferiority, And The Politics Of Whiteness

by Angie Maxwell

39,74€ + 10% CARD

 "By the 1920s, the sectional reconciliation that had seemed achievable after Reconstruction was foundering, and the South was increasingly perceived and portrayed as impoverished, uneducated, and backward. In this interdisciplinary study, Angie Maxwell examines and connects three key twentieth-century moments in which the South was exposed to intense public criticism, identifying in white southerners' responses a pattern of defensiveness that shaped the region's political and cultural conservatism. Maxwell exposes the way the perception of regional inferiority confronted all types of southerners, focusing on the 1925 Scopes trial in Dayton, Tennessee, and the birth of the anti-evolution movement; the publication of I'll Take My Stand and the turn to New Criticism by the Southern Agrarians; and Virginia's campaign of Massive Resistance and Interposition in response to the Brown v. Board of Education decision. Tracing the effects of media scrutiny and the ridicule that characterized national discourse in each of these cases, Maxwell reveals the reactionary responses that linked modern southern whiteness with anti-elitism, states' rights, fundamentalism, and majoritarianism."--
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Southscapes - Geographies Of Race, Region, And Literature

by Thadious M. Davis

39,74€ + 10% CARD

 In this innovative approach to southern literary cultures, Thadious Davis analyses how black southern writers use their spatial location to articulate the vexed connections between society and environment, particularly under segregation and its legacies. Davis reveals how these writers reconstitute racial exclusion as creative black space, rather than a site of trauma and resistance.
ENGLISH

Baptized In Pcbs - Race, Pollution, And Justice In An All-American Town

by Ellen Griffith Spears

132,50€ + 10% CARD

 In the mid-1990s, residents of Anniston, Alabama, began a legal fight against the agrochemical company Monsanto over the dumping of PCBs in the city’s historically African American and white working-class west side. Simultaneously, Anniston environmentalists sought to safely eliminate chemical weaponry that had been secretly stockpiled near the city during the Cold War. In this probing work, Ellen Griffith Spears offers a compelling narrative of Anniston’s battles for environmental justice, exposing how systemic racial and class inequalities reinforced during the Jim Crow era played out in these intense contemporary social movements. Spears focuses attention on key figures who shaped Anniston — from Monsanto’s founders, to white and African American activists, to the ordinary Anniston residents whose lives and health were deeply affected by the town’s military-industrial history and the legacy of racism. Situating the personal struggles and triumphs of Anniston residents within a larger national story of regulatory regimes and legal strategies that have affected toxic towns across America, Spears unflinchingly explores the causes and implications of environmental inequalities, showing how civil rights movement activism undergirded Anniston’s campaigns for redemption and justice.
ENGLISH

Redefining The Immigrant South - Indian And Pakistani Immigration To Houston During The Cold War

by Uzma Quraishi

152,38€ + 10% CARD

 By the late twentieth century, Houston's South Asian community had become one of the most prosperous in the metropolitan area and one of the largest in the country. Mining archives and using new oral histories, Uzma Quraishi traces this pioneering community from its midcentury roots to the early twenty-first century.
ENGLISH

Hurtin' Words - Debating Family Problems In The Twentieth-Century South

by Ted Ownby

152,38€ + 10% CARD

 When Tammy Wynette sang â€œD-I-V-O-R-C-Eâ€, she famously said she â€œspelled out the hurtin' wordsâ€ to spare her child the pain of family breakup. In this innovative work, Ted Ownby considers how a wide range of writers, thinkers, activists, and others defined family problems in the twentieth-century American South.
ENGLISH

Beyond The Crossroads - The Devil And The Blues Tradition

by Adam Gussow

152,38€ + 10% CARD

 In this groundbreaking study, Adam Gussow takes the full measure of the devil's presence in the blues. Working from original transcriptions of more than 125 recordings released during the past ninety years, Gussow explores the varied uses to which black southern blues people have put this trouble-sowing, love-wrecking, but also empowering figure.
ENGLISH

This Ain'T Chicago - Race, Class, And Regional Identity In The Post-Soul South

by Zandria F. Robinson

99,38€ + 10% CARD

 When Zandria Robinson returned home to interview African Americans in Memphis, she was often greeted with some version of the caution ""I hope you know this ain't Chicago"". In this important new work, Robinson critiques ideas of black identity constructed through a northern lens and situates African Americans as central shapers of contemporary southern culture.
ENGLISH

Hard, Hard Religion - Interracial Faith In The Poor South

by John Hayes

139,13€ + 10% CARD

 In his captivating study of faith and class, John Hayes examines the ways folk religion in the early twentieth century allowed the South’s poor — both white and black — to listen, borrow, and learn from each other about what it meant to live as Christians in a world of severe struggle. Beneath the well-documented religious forms of the New South, people caught in the region’s poverty crafted a distinct folk Christianity that spoke from the margins of capitalist development, giving voice to modern phenomena like alienation and disenchantment. Through haunting songs of death, mystical tales of conversion, grassroots sacramental displays, and an ethic of neighborliness, impoverished folk Christians looked for the sacred in their midst and affirmed the value of this life in this world. From Tom Watson and W. E. B. Du Bois over a century ago to political commentators today, many have ruminated on how, despite material commonalities, the poor of the South have been perennially divided by racism. Through his excavation of a folk Christianity of the poor, which fused strands of African and European tradition into a new synthesis, John Hayes recovers a historically contingent moment of interracial exchange generated in hardship.
ENGLISH

Calypso Magnolia - The Crosscurrents Of Caribbean And Southern Literature

by John Wharton Lowe

99,38€ + 10% CARD

 In this literary history, John Wharton Lowe remakes the map of American culture by revealing the deep, persistent connections between the ideas and works produced by writers of the American South and the Caribbean. Lowe demonstrates that a tendency to separate literary canons by national and regional boundaries has led critics to ignore deep ties across highly permeable borders.
ENGLISH

Indicted South - Public Criticism, Southern Inferiority, And The Politics Of Whiteness

by Angie Maxwell

119,25€ + 10% CARD

 "By the 1920s, the sectional reconciliation that had seemed achievable after Reconstruction was foundering, and the South was increasingly perceived and portrayed as impoverished, uneducated, and backward. In this interdisciplinary study, Angie Maxwell examines and connects three key twentieth-century moments in which the South was exposed to intense public criticism, identifying in white southerners' responses a pattern of defensiveness that shaped the region's political and cultural conservatism. Maxwell exposes the way the perception of regional inferiority confronted all types of southerners, focusing on the 1925 Scopes trial in Dayton, Tennessee, and the birth of the anti-evolution movement; the publication of I'll Take My Stand and the turn to New Criticism by the Southern Agrarians; and Virginia's campaign of Massive Resistance and Interposition in response to the Brown v. Board of Education decision. Tracing the effects of media scrutiny and the ridicule that characterized national discourse in each of these cases, Maxwell reveals the reactionary responses that linked modern southern whiteness with anti-elitism, states' rights, fundamentalism, and majoritarianism."--
ENGLISH

Redefining The Immigrant South - Indian And Pakistani Immigration To Houston During The Cold War

by Uzma Quraishi

152,38€ + 10% CARD

 By the late twentieth century, Houston's South Asian community had become one of the most prosperous in the metropolitan area and one of the largest in the country. Mining archives and using new oral histories, Uzma Quraishi traces this pioneering community from its midcentury roots to the early twenty-first century.
ENGLISH

Redefining The Immigrant South - Indian And Pakistani Immigration To Houston During The Cold War

by Uzma Quraishi

106,80€ + 10% CARD

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 By the late twentieth century, Houston's South Asian community had become one of the most prosperous in the metropolitan area and one of the largest in the country. Mining archives and using new oral histories, Uzma Quraishi traces this pioneering community from its midcentury roots to the early twenty-first century.
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