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Writing the South through the self : explorations in southern autobiography
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Writing the South through the self : explorations in southern autobiography

John C. Inscoe

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"Published in association with the Georgia Humanities Council."

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 pretty fed up with this two-tone South" : moving toward multiculturalism.

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