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Fight Against Fear - Southern Jews And Black Civil Rights

by Clive Webb

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 This work focuses on Jews and African Americans during the struggle for civil rights in the American South. It demonstrates how the historical burden of ambivalence between Jews and blacks weighed on such issues as school desegration , the white massive resistance, and business boycotts.
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The Amistad Revolt - Memory, Slavery, And The Politics Of Identity In The United States And Sierra Leone

by Iyunolu Folayan Osagie

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 From journalism and lectures to drama, visual art, and the Spielberg film, this study ranges across the varied cultural reactions engendered by the 1839 Amistad slave ship revolt. Osagie, a native of Sierra Leone, digs deeply into the Amistad story to show the historical and contemporary relevance of the incident and its subsequent trials.
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Carpet Capital - The Rise Of A New South Industry

by Randall L. Patton

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 After World War II, the carpet industry came to be identified with the Dalton region of northwest Georgia. Carpet Capital is a story of revolutionary changes that transformed both an industry and a region, and documents the rise of a home-grown southern industry and entrepreneurial capitalism.
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John Burroughs And The Place Of Nature

by James Perrin Warren

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 This study situates John Burroughs, together with John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt, as one of a trinity of thinkers who secured a place for nature in mainstream American culture. Warren shows how Burroughs helped guide urban and suburban middle-class readers â€œback to natureâ€ during a time of intense industrialization and urbanization.
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Cause At Heart - A Former Communist Remembers

by Junius Irving Scales e Richard Nickson

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 Cause at Heart follows Junius Irving Scales from his privileged southern upbringing through the awakening of his social conscience, his civil- and labor- rights work for the Party across the South, his arrest and trials, his disillusionment with the Party, and his time in prison.
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The Gullah People And Their African Heritage

by William S. Pollitzer

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 With a keen sense of the limits to establishing origins and tracing adaptations, William S. Pollitzer discusses such aspects of Gullah history and culture as language, religion, family and social relationships, music, folklore, trades and skills, and arts and crafts.
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Torches Of Light - Georgia Teachers And The Coming Of The Modern South

by Ann Short Chirhart

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 As turbulent social and economic changes swept the South in the first half of the 20th century, education became the flashpoint. Ann Short Chirhart's study is the first to analyze such modernizing events in Georgia.
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Making Freedom Pay - North Carolina Freedpeople Working For Themselves, 1865-1900

by Sharon Ann Holt

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 Holt reconstructs how freed men and women in tobacco-growing central North Carolina worked to secure a place for themselves in this ravaged region and hostile time. She uses highly personalized accounts of the day-to-day travails and victories of ordinary people to tell a nationally significant story of extraordinary grassroots uplift.
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South Of Tradition - Essays On African American Literature

by Trudier Harris-Lopez

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 This work aims to show the vibrancy of African American literary creation across several decades of the 20th century. It addresses themes of sexual and racial identity, reconceptualizations of and transcendence of Christianity, and analyzes African American folk and cultural traditions.
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The Poetry Of Men'S Lives - An International Anthology

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 This anthology celebrates the multifaceted experience of contemporary manhood. The lives into which these poems invite us reveal the influences of culture, heredity, personal experience, values, beliefs, wishes, desires, loves, and betrayals.
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Cartographies - Meditations On Travel

by Marjorie Agosin

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 In these lyrical meditations in prose and poetry, Agosin evokes the many places on four continents she has visited or called home. Recording personal and spiritual voyages, the author opens herself to follow the ambiguous, secret map of her memory, which "does not betray." Agosin writes of Diaspora, exile, and oppression.
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Waist Deep In Black Water

by John Lane

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 Something is always at stake wherever Lane takes us: a stand of old-growth trees, a primate population, a friendship, a soul. Lane bestows loving attention on the places and people he visits in this collection and, in the process, goes beyond the traditional concerns of nature and travel writing.
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Chattooga - Descending Into The Myth Of Deliverance River

by John Lane

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 This is John Lane's search for the real Chattooga, for the truths that reside somewhere in the river's rapids, along its shores, or in its travellers' hearts. Lane balances the dark, mythical river of Deliverance against the Chattooga known to locals and the outdoors enthusiasts who first mastered its treacherous vortices and hydraulics.
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The Politics Of Whiteness - Race, Workers, And Culture In The Modern South

by Michelle Brattain

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 The first sustained analysis of white racial identity among workers in what was the Southâ€™s largest industry for much of the twentieth century: textiles. Brattain uncovers white working-class political influence and activism in the industry which helped pave the way for resistance to the civil rights movement.
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Darkroom - A Family Exposure

by Jill Christman

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 This is Jill Christman's account of her first 30 years. Her story runs the gamut of dramatic life events, including childhood sexual abuse, accidental death and psychological trauma, but her memoir is more than a litany of horrors: it is an open-eyed, wide-hearted look at a life worth surviving.
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Victory At Home - Manpower And Race In The American South During World War Ii

by Charles D. Chamberlain

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 Charles D. Chamberlain explores how southern working families used America's rapid wartime industrialization and an expanded federal presence to gain unprecedented economic, social, and geographic mobility in the chronically poor region.
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Renewing Birmingham - Federal Funding And The Promise Of Change, 1929-1979

by Christopher Macgregor Scribner

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 The first book-length study of how federal funding helped transform a twentieth-century southern city. Scribner shows that such funding not only aided Birminghamâ€™s transition from an industrial to a service economy but also led to redrawn avenues of power, influence, and justice in the city and advanced the civil rights agenda.
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Labor In The Modern South

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 Embracing but moving beyond the traditional concerns of labor history, these nine original essays give a voice to workers underrepresented in the scholarship on labor in the twentieth-century South. They are filled with new insights into southerners' concerns about workplace safety, access to training, job mobility, and worker solidarity.
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Ernest Vandiver, Governor Of Georgia

by Harold P. Henderson

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The Second Wave - Southern Industrialization From The 1940s To The 1970s

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 Though it had helped define the New South era, the first wave of regional industrialization had clearly lost momentum even before the Great Depression. These nine original case studies look at how World War II and its aftermath transformed the economy, culture, and politics of the South.
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Mediapolitik - How The Mass Media Have Transformed World Politics

by Lee Edwards

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 This title seeks to show that the mass media can either enrich or enslave the human spirit, depending upon their moral foundation. If the media follow a liberal democratic model, they contribute to a free society. If they follow an authoritarian or totalitarian model they can perpetuate a regime.
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Treatises On Marriage And Other Subjects - The Good Marriage, Adulterous Marriage, Holy Virginity, Faith And Works, The Creed, Faith And The Creed, The Care To Be Taken For The Dead, In Answer

by Augustine

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Ascetical Works - Vol. 9

by Basil e M. Monica Wagner

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Walker Percy'S Voices

by Michael Kobre

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 In this multifaceted work, Michael Kobre analyzes Walker Percyâ€™s major fiction worksâ€"The Moviegoer, The Last Gentleman, Love in the Ruins, Lancelot, The Second Coming, and The Thanatos Syndromeâ€"in terms of the Russian philosopher and literary scholar Mikhail Bakhtinâ€™s critical theory.
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