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Author | : Beth Barton Schweiger |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2019-06-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0300245394 |
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A provocative examination of literacy in the American South before emancipation, countering the long-standing stereotype of the South’s oral tradition Schweiger complicates our understanding of literacy in the American South in the decades just prior to the Civil War by showing that rural people had access to a remarkable variety of things to read. Drawing on the writings of four young women who lived in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Schweiger shows how free and enslaved people learned to read, and that they wrote and spoke poems, songs, stories, and religious doctrines that were circulated by speech and in print. The assumption that slavery and reading are incompatible—which has its origins in the eighteenth century—has obscured the rich literate tradition at the heart of Southern and American culture.
Author | : Heather Andrea Williams |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2009-06-03 |
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ISBN | : 1442995408 |
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Author | : Janet Duitsman Cornelius |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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'A distinctive volume revealing America's often-contradictory dance with freedom & the concepts of equality & inalienable rights.'-Chicago Tribune.
Author | : Lynn Arthur Steen |
Publisher | : MAA |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 9780883858165 |
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Author | : Robert A. Margo |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780226505107 |
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Robert A. Margo mines a wealth of newly available census data and school district records to explore the experience of blacks in the American economy. Identifying the links between educational expenditures, racial discrimination, and occupational mobility, he clarifies the costs of segregation.
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Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Health education |
ISBN | : 1428925449 |
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Author | : Mastin Prinsloo |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1996-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027217955 |
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The Social Uses of Literacy: Theory and Practice in Contemporary South Africa challenges state-driven policy and provision in South Africa around the construction of a national delivery system for adult literacy that is part of a programme for Adult Basic Education. The implication is that many people who are the target of this system will be unwilling to participate at the entry point of literacy acquisition unless a reconceptualisation of the nature of literacy use by adults is made. Using fascinating and carefully documented case-study material, this book raises vital questions about literacy and illiteracy, and about adult education. Above all, it questions the efficacy of any literacy programme which fails to acknowledge the many ways in which uneducated and so called 'illiterate' people already use reading, writing and numeracy in their everyday lives.
Author | : Wayne Sewell |
Publisher | : Van Nostrand Reinhold Company |
Total Pages | : 580 |
Release | : 1989 |
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Author | : Keri Leigh Merritt |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 373 |
Release | : 2017-05-08 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 110718424X |
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This book examines the lives of the Antebellum South's underprivileged whites in nineteenth-century America.
Author | : James C. Cobb |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2005-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0198025017 |
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From the seventeenth century Cavaliers and Uncle Tom's Cabin to Civil Rights museums and today's conflicts over the Confederate flag, here is a brilliant portrait of southern identity, served in an engaging blend of history, literature, and popular culture. In this insightful book, written with dry wit and sharp insight, James C. Cobb explains how the South first came to be seen--and then came to see itself--as a region apart from the rest of America. As Cobb demonstrates, the legend of the aristocratic Cavalier origins of southern planter society was nurtured by both northern and southern writers, only to be challenged by abolitionist critics, black and white. After the Civil War, defeated and embittered southern whites incorporated the Cavalier myth into the cult of the "Lost Cause," which supplied the emotional energy for their determined crusade to rejoin the Union on their own terms. After World War I, white writers like Ellen Glasgow, William Faulkner and other key figures of "Southern Renaissance" as well as their African American counterparts in the "Harlem Renaissance"--Cobb is the first to show the strong links between the two movements--challenged the New South creed by asking how the grandiose vision of the South's past could be reconciled with the dismal reality of its present. The Southern self-image underwent another sea change in the wake of the Civil Rights movement, when the end of white supremacy shook the old definition of the "Southern way of life"--but at the same time, African Americans began to examine their southern roots more openly and embrace their regional, as well as racial, identity. As the millennium turned, the South confronted a new identity crisis brought on by global homogenization: if Southern culture is everywhere, has the New South become the No South? Here then is a major work by one of America's finest Southern historians, a magisterial synthesis that combines rich scholarship with provocative new insights into what the South means to southerners and to America as well.