Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

Author: Charles Reagan Wilson

Publisher:

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 1686

ISBN-13:

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Editors Wilson (history, Mississippi) and Ferris (anthropology, Detroit and Bakersfield. Literate, scholarly and pithy entries accompanied by well chosen photographs artfully placed. Far too good a book to be printed on acidic paper; our test contradicts the statement on the verso of the title page. The price is $49.95 until January 1990. Mississippi) have devoted 10 years to the realization of a unique concept. Involving many scholars and writers in many fields, this book ranges from grand historical themes to the whimsical; from the arts and high culture to folk and popular culture, organized around 245 thematic sections such as, history, religion, language, art and architecture, etc. Focuses on the eleven states of the former confederacy, but also encompases southern outposts in midwestern and middle-Atlantic border states, even the southern pockets of Chicago, Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

This Is Our Home
This Is Our Home

Author: Whitney Nell Stewart

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2023-11-06

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 1469675692

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The cultural memory of plantations in the Old South has long been clouded by myth. A recent reckoning with the centrality of slavery to the US national story, however, has shifted the meaning of these sites. Plantations are no longer simply seen as places of beauty and grandiose hospitality; their reality as spaces of enslavement, exploitation, and violence is increasingly at the forefront of our scholarly and public narratives. Yet even this reckoning obscures what these sites meant to so many forced to live and labor on them: plantations were Black homes as much as white. Insightfully reading the built environment of plantations, considering artifact fragments found in excavations of slave dwellings, and drawing on legal records and plantation owners' papers, Whitney Nell Stewart illuminates how enslaved people struggled to make home amid innumerable constraints and obstacles imposed by white southerners. By exploring the material remnants of the past, Stewart demonstrates how homemaking was a crucial part of the battle over slavery and freedom, a fight that continues today in consequential confrontations over who has the right to call this nation home.

Material Georgia, 1733-1900
Material Georgia, 1733-1900

Author: Dale Couch

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781946657114

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"A generation ago, few people thought much of Georgia decorative arts, but 20 years of hard work by the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia have changed that mistaken impression. The museum presented the first formal exhibition of Georgia decorative arts in 1975, and other museums in the state followed suit. In 2000, the museum opened the Henry D. Green Center for the Study of the Decorative Arts. The center organizes a symposium held every other year to present and publish research on the decorative arts that is among the best attended events of its kind. To celebrate the 20-year anniversary of the Green Center, the museum has organized the exhibition "Material Georgia 1733 - 1900: Two Decades of Scholarship" (on view November 16, 2019, through March 15, 2020), which this catalogue accompanies. This exhibition takes a comprehensive look at Georgia's diverse contributions to early decorative arts and summarizes the scholarship that has been done in the 20 years since the Green Center's founding. It focuses on revealing new discoveries made in the field, pointing a way forward and making the case Georgia can hold its own against any other state in terms of the quality of its decorative arts"--

America, History and Life
America, History and Life

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 628

ISBN-13:

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Article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations covering the United States and Canada.