Dixie's Forgotten People, New Edition
Dixie's Forgotten People, New Edition

Author: Wayne Flynt

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2009-08-20

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9780253003034

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"The best sort of introductory study... packed with enlightening information." -- The Times Literary Supplement Poor whites have been isolated from mainstream white Southern culture and have been in turn stereotyped as rednecks and Holy Rollers, discriminated against, and misunderstood. In their isolation, they have developed a unique subculture and defended it with a tenacity and pride that puzzles and confuses the larger society. Written 25 years ago, this book was one scholar's attempt to understand these people and their culture. For this new edition, Wayne Flynt has provided a new retrospective introduction and an up-to-date bibliography.

Poor But Proud
Poor But Proud

Author: Wayne Flynt

Publisher: University of Alabama Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 485

ISBN-13: 0817311505

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After examining origins, Flynt (Southern history, Auburn U.) studies farmers, textile workers, coal miners, and timber workers in depth and discusses family structure, folk culture, the politics of poor whites, and their attempts to resolve problems through labor unions and political movements. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Dixie Walker of the Dodgers
Dixie Walker of the Dodgers

Author: Maury Allen

Publisher: University of Alabama Press

Published: 2010-06-16

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0817355995

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A biography of Fred "Dixie" Walker, a gifted ballplayer who played in the majors for 18 seasons and in 1,905 games, assembling a career batting average of .306 while playing for the Yankees, White Sox, Tigers, Dodgers, and Pirates.

Judgment and Grace in Dixie
Judgment and Grace in Dixie

Author: Charles Reagan Wilson

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 1997-03-01

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9780820319070

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Wilson appraises the influence of religion on various aspects of Southern culture.

The Half-mammals of Dixie
The Half-mammals of Dixie

Author: George Singleton

Publisher: Algonquin Books

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1565123549

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Presents a collection of short stories that captures the lives of such characters as a boy whose reputation is ruined forever after he stars in a documentary on diagnosing head lice and a lovelorn father who woos his child's third-grade teacher.

History and Hope in the Heart of Dixie
History and Hope in the Heart of Dixie

Author: Gordon E. Harvey

Publisher: University of Alabama Press

Published: 2006-08-20

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0817353208

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Can any good thing come from Auburn? / John Shelton Reed -- Revisiting race relations in an Upland South community : Lacrosse, Arkansas / Brooks Blevins -- Southern accents : the politics of race and the passage of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 / Susan Youngblood Ashmore -- Is there a balm in Gilead? Baptists and reform in North Carolina, 1900-1925 / Richard D. Starnes -- The beginnings of interracialism : Macon, Georgia, in the 1930s / Andrew M. Manis -- Race, class, the Southern conference, and the beginning of the end of the New Deal coalition / Glenn Feldman -- "Wallaceism is an insidious and treacherous type of disease" : the 1970 Alabama gubernatorial election and the "Wallace freeze" on Alabama politics / Gordon E. Harvey -- Divide and conquer : interest groups and political culture in Alabama, 1929-1971 / Jeff Frederick -- The scholar as activist / Dewayne Key -- Evangelist for constitutional reform / Bailey Thomson -- The historian as public policy activist / Dan T. Carter.

Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Author: Laura F. Edwards

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9780252072185

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Establishing the household as the central institution of southern society, Edwards delineates the inseparable links between domestic relations and civil and political rights in ways that highlight women's active political role throughout the nineteenth century. She draws on diaries, letters, newspaper accounts, government records, legal documents, court proceedings, and other primary sources to explore the experiences and actions of individual women in the changing South, demonstrating how family, kin, personal reputation, and social context all merged with gender, race, and class to shape what particular women could do in particular circumstances.

Death Was My Next Step
Death Was My Next Step

Author: Dixie Pebworth

Publisher:

Published: 2024-05-14

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781944566579

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Deemed a criminal and labeled as a threat to society, Dixie Pebworth-a twenty-four year old convicted drug dealer-was sent to prison. But God had a different plan, and one unexpected night changed everything.

From Diversity to Unity
From Diversity to Unity

Author: Roger Guy

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9780739118344

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From Diversity to Unity is a community study of settlement and adaptation of southern and Appalachian migrants to the neighborhood of Uptown Chicago. Oral histories, community newspapers, and secondary sources reveal the human experience of urban migration. Following the postwar collapse of the coal industry, Appalachian migration to northern cities increased significantly. Roger Guy examines this migration, placing particular emphasis on the role of women in the settlement of the migrants in a new place. From Diversity to Unity fills a valuable niche in urban and Appalachian history and is ideal for scholars and students of urban and Chicago history as well as Appalachian and ethnic studies. Book jacket.