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Inscoe, John C., 1951-

Writing the South through the self explorations in southern autobiography / [electronic resource] : John C. Inscoe. - Athens [Ga.] : University of Georgia Press, c2011. - xv, 249 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Autobiography--Social aspects--Southern States.
Autobiography--Psychological aspects--Southern States.
Race discrimination--Southern States.
Miscegenation--Southern States.
Social stratification--Southern States.
Segregation in transportation--Southern States.
College students--Attitudes.--Southern States

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Southern States--Biography.
Southern States--Social conditions.
Appalachian Region--Social conditions.

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: F208 / .I67 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 975