A Carpetbagger's Guide to Dixie
Author | : Edward Hugh Marriott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Americanisms |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Edward Hugh Marriott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Americanisms |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James B. Twitchell |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2011-03-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807139688 |
As a boy, James Twitchell heard stories about his ancestors in Louisiana and even played with his great-grandfather's Civil War sword, but he never appreciated the state and the events that influenced a pivotal chapter in his family history. His great-grandfather, Marshall Harvey Twitchell, a carpetbagger from Vermont, had settled in upstate Louisiana during Reconstruction, married a local girl, and encountered much success until a fateful day in August 1874. The dramatic story of the elder Twitchell's life and near assassination fuels the author's pursuit of his family's history and a true understanding of the South. In Look Away, Dixieland, Vermont-native Twitchell sets out from his current home inFlorida on the inauguration day of America's first black president to find the "real" South and to try to understand the truth about his illustrious ancestor. He travels in an RV from Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp across Alabama and Mississippi to Coushatta, Louisiana. As he drives through the heart of Dixie, Twitchell sorts through the prejudices he learned from his northern rearing. In searching for the culture he had held at arm's length for so long, he tours small-town southern life -- in campgrounds, cotton gins, churches, country fairs, and squirrel dog kennels -- and uncovers some fundamental truths along the way. Notably, he discovers that prejudices of race, class, and ideology are not limited by geography. As one man from Georgia mockingly summed up North versus South stereotypes, "Y'all are rude and we're stupid." Unexpectedly, Twitchell also uncovers facts about his great-grandfather and sheds new light on his family's past. An enlightening, humorous, and refreshingly honest search, Look Away, Dixieland reveals some of the differences and similarities that ultimately define us as a nation.
Author | : Karen L. Cox |
Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2018-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813063647 |
Once upon a time, it was impossible to drive through the South without coming across signs to “See Rock City” or similar tourist attractions. From battlegrounds to birthplaces, and sites in between, heritage tourism has always been part of how the South attracts visitors—and defines itself—yet such sites are often understudied in the scholarly literature. As the contributors to this volume make clear, the narrative of southern history told at these sites is often complicated by race, influenced by local politics, and shaped by competing memories. Included are essays on the meanings of New Orleans cemeteries; Stone Mountain, Georgia; historic Charleston, South Carolina; Yorktown National Battlefield; Selma, Alabama, as locus of the civil rights movement; and the homes of Mark Twain, Margaret Mitchell, and other notables. Destination Dixie reveals that heritage tourism in the South is about more than just marketing destinations and filling hotel rooms; it cuts to the heart of how southerners seek to shape their identity and image for a broader touring public—now often made up of northerners and southerners alike.
Author | : Courtney Elizabeth Knapp |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2018-03-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1469637286 |
What can local histories of interracial conflict and collaboration teach us about the potential for urban equity and social justice in the future? Courtney Elizabeth Knapp chronicles the politics of gentrification and culture-based development in Chattanooga, Tennessee, by tracing the roots of racism, spatial segregation, and mainstream "cosmopolitanism" back to the earliest encounters between the Cherokee, African Americans, and white settlers. For more than three centuries, Chattanooga has been a site for multiracial interaction and community building; yet today public leaders have simultaneously restricted and appropriated many contributions of working-class communities of color within the city, exacerbating inequality and distrust between neighbors and public officials. Knapp suggests that "diasporic placemaking"—defined as the everyday practices through which uprooted people create new communities of security and belonging—is a useful analytical frame for understanding how multiracial interactions drive planning and urban development in diverse cities over time. By weaving together archival, ethnographic, and participatory action research techniques, she reveals the political complexities of a city characterized by centuries of ordinary resistance to racial segregation and uneven geographic development.
Author | : Library of Congress. Copyright Office |
Publisher | : Copyright Office, Library of Congress |
Total Pages | : 1914 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Copyright |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Library of Congress. Copyright Office |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1892 |
Release | : 1977-07 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Maureen Duffin-Ward |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2010-06-15 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 1451603967 |
Moving South? Feeling a little out of place? Craving pizza from home and faking a passion for sweet tea? Not generating much Southern hospitality? Wondering if you'll ever fit in? Well, honey, here's your complete guide to living in Dixie, providing migrating Yanks with tips on living, eating, greeting, driving, walking, talking, and what food to bring to a funeral. From his 'n' her Southern Hair Dos (and Don'ts) to The A to Z Dixie Dictionary, Suddenly Southern includes everything you need to know about living south of the Mason-Dixon Line, including: Recipes that range from mint juleps and hoppin' john to recipes for disaster "Know Your Bugs by Their Mugs," a handy identification chart 10 ways to say, "Now that's ugly" in Dixie How to walk from the store to the car without dying, a Fun-in-the-Sun Survival Kit 100 Southern Things Worth the Trip From Southern tailgate food (deviled eggs and cheese straws) to minding your BBQs, from pronouncing pecan to knowing when your cat's a true Southerner, from knowing when you're fittin' in to knowing when you're not, this is the ideal guide for anyone moving, planning a move, or just plain ol' interested in this fascinating American region. With this book on your shelf, they'll never be able to say "Yankee, go home" again.
Author | : Sara Pitzer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Historic sites |
ISBN | : 9781564406484 |
Focusing on a period form the late 1700s through the end of the Civil War, this seasoned author takes her readers through all 12 of the Southern states.
Author | : Katherine Rye Jewell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2017-04-24 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1107174023 |
In Dollars for Dixie, Katherine Rye Jewell demonstrates how conservative southern industrialists pursued a political campaign to preserve regional economic arrangements.
Author | : Library of Congress. Copyright Office |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1926 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : American drama |
ISBN | : |