Description |
vi, 189 pages ; 23 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Power, Love and a Sound Mind / Jacqueline Wheelock -- Covered Walkways / Lean'tin Bracks -- Black Bitch / Jim Grimsley -- Conversion / Lillie Anne Brown -- Growing Up Out of Place / Becky McLaughlin -- Women's Work and Working Women / Leslie Haynsworth -- 1975 Wasn't a Very Good Year / Georgene Bess Montgomery -- The Absence of Water / Glenis Redmond -- Black Power / Stephanie Powell Watts -- 1987 Tenth Grade / Camika C. Spencer -- Why It Matters / Anne Estepp -- The Difference / Ashley Day -- Hed: The Unwritten Rules / Dawne Shand -- Attempts to Bury History Backfire: When Do the People Learn? / Kyes Stevens -- Hiding Next Door / Vallie Lynn Watson -- Elevator Music / Ravi Howard -- What Is There to Say? / Ray Morton -- Facing South / Kathleen Rooney. |
Summary |
"In this collection of memoirs, writers, teachers, scholars and historians recall growing up in the South from the late 1950s to the early 1990s, revealing how the region changed over time, as well as how a Southern childhood varied across time, race, gender, socio-economic status, and geography"--Provided by publisher. |
Contents |
Introduction / by Foster Dickson -- Power, love, and a sound mind / by Jacqueline Wheelock -- Covered walkways / by Lean'tin Bracks -- Black bitch / by Jim Grimsley -- Conversion / by Lillie Anne Brown -- Growing up out of place / by Becky McLaughlin -- Women's works and working women / by Leslie Haynsworth -- 1975 wasn't a very good year / by Georgene Bess Montgomery -- The absence of water / by Glenis Redmond -- Black power / by Stephanie Powell Watts -- 1987 tenth grade / by Camika C. Spencer -- Why it matters / by Anne Estepp -- The difference / by Ashley Day -- Hed : the unwritten rules / by Dawne Shand -- Attempts to bury history backfire : when do the people learn? / by Kyes Stevens -- Hiding next door / by Vallie Lynn Watson -- Elevator music / by Ravi Howard -- What is there to say? / by Ray Morton -- Facing South / by Kathleen Rooney -- Afterword / by David Molina. |
Subject |
Children -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
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Children. |
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Southern States. |
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Social conditions. |
Chronological Term |
20th century |
Genre/Form |
Anecdotes.
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Subject |
Children -- Southern States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
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Manners and customs. |
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Children -- Southern States -- Biography -- Anecdotes.
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Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Subject |
Southern States -- Biography -- Anecdotes.
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Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
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Race relations. |
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History. |
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Social change -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
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Social change. |
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Southern States -- Social conditions -- 1945- -- Anecdotes.
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Chronological Term |
1945- |
Subject |
Southern States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
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Children. |
Genre/Form |
Anecdotes.
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Biographies.
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Added Author |
Dickson, Foster.
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ISBN |
9780786460489 softcover alkaline paper |
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0786460482 softcover alkaline paper |
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