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Author Robinson, Zandria F., author.

Title This ain't Chicago : race, class, and regional identity in the post-soul South / Zandria F. Robinson.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2014]
©2014

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series New directions in Southern studies
New directions in southern studies.
Summary "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. Analytically separating black southerners from their migrating cousins, fictive kin, and white counterparts, Robinson demonstrates how place intersects with race, class, gender, and regional identities and differences. Robinson grounds her work in Memphis--the first big city heading north out of the Mississippi Delta. Although Memphis sheds light on much about the South, Robinson does not suggest that the region is monolithic. Instead, she attends to multiple Souths, noting the distinctions between southern places. Memphis, neither Old South nor New South, sits at the intersections of rural and urban, soul and post-soul, and civil rights and post-civil rights, representing an ongoing conversation with the varied incarnations of the South, past and present."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject African Americans -- Tennessee -- Memphis.
African Americans.
Tennessee -- Memphis.
African Americans -- Race identity -- Tennessee -- Memphis.
African Americans -- Race identity.
African Americans -- Social conditions -- 1975-
African Americans -- Social conditions.
Chronological Term 1975-
Subject Memphis (Tenn.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Memphis (Tenn.) -- Social conditions.
Chronological Term Since 1900
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Robinson, Zandria F. This ain't Chicago 9781469614229 (DLC) 2013041271 (OCoLC)863632238
ISBN 9781469614243 (electronic book)
1469614243 (electronic book)
9781469614236 (electronic book)
1469614235 (electronic book)
9781469614229
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