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Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos

Conceptions of the African American West

by Michael K. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014

Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos undertakes an interdisciplinary exploration of the African American West through close readings of texts from a variety of media. This approach allows for both an in-depth analysis of individual texts and a discussion of material often left out or underrepresented...
by Lawrence Schenbeck
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012

Racial Uplift and American Music 1878-1943 traces the career of racial uplift ideology as a factor in elite African Americans' embrace of classical music around the turn of the previous century, from the collapse of Reconstruction to the death of composer/conductor R. Nathaniel Dett, whose music epitomized...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014

This volume of fourteen interviews covers the prolific and rich career of author Jerome Charyn (b. 1937). Four of the interviews appear in English for the first time, and two interviews appear here in print for the first time as well. As one of his autobiographical volumes claims, Jerome Charyn...

Lew Ayres

Hollywood's Conscientious Objector

by Lesley L. Coffin
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012

Lew Ayres (1908-1996) became known to the public when he portrayed the leading character in the epic war film All Quiet on the Western Front. The role made him a household name, introduced him to his closest friends, brought him to the attention of his first two wives, and would overshadow the rest...

The Dixie Limited

Writers on William Faulkner and His Influence

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Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016

Flannery O'Connor once noted, "The presence alone of Faulkner in our midst makes a great difference in what the writer can and cannot permit himself to do. Nobody wants his mule and wagon stalled on the same track the Dixie Limited is roaring down." Her railroading metaphor wittily captures...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2010

William Faulkner grew up and began his writing career during a time of great cultural upheaval, especially in the realm of sexuality, where every normative notion of identity and relationship was being re-examined. Not only does Faulkner explore multiple versions of sexuality throughout his work,...
by Timothy E. Wise
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016

Timothy E. Wise presents the first book to focus specifically on the musical content of yodeling in our culture. He shows that yodeling serves an aesthetic function in musical texts. A series of chronological chapters analyzes this musical tradition from its earliest appearances in Europe to its incorporation...

Consuming Identity

The Role of Food in Redefining the South

by Ashli Quesinberry Stokes, Wendy Atkins-Sayre
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016

Southerners love to talk food, quickly revealing likes and dislikes, regional preferences, and their own delicious stories. Because the topic often crosses lines of race, class, gender, and region, food supplies a common fuel to launch discussion. Consuming Identity sifts through the self-definitions,...

Comfort Food

Meanings and Memories

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Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017

With contributions by Barbara Banks, Sheila Bock, Susan Eleuterio, Jillian Gould, Phillis Humphries, Michael Owen Jones, Alicia Kristen, William G. Lockwood, Yvonne R. Lockwood, Lucy M. Long, LuAnne Roth, Rachelle H. Saltzman, Charlene Smith, Annie Tucker, and Diane Tye Comfort Food explores...
by M.D., Neal R. Cutler
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1997

Alzheimer's disease has received growing attention in recent years because the affected population is growing quickly as life spans in America creep ever upward. As they near retirement, many Americans start to fear that any minor memory lapse-misplacing the keys or forgetting a name-might spell Alzheimer's....

Populism in the South Revisited

New Interpretations and New Departures

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Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012

The Populist Movement was the largest mass movement for political and economic change in the history of the American South until the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. The Populist Movement in this book is defined as the Farmers' Alliance and the People's Party, as well as the Agricultural...

In the Lion's Mouth

Black Populism in the New South, 1886-1900

by Omar H. Ali
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010

Following the collapse of Reconstruction in 1877, African Americans organized a movement--distinct from the white Populist movement--in the South and parts of the Midwest for economic and political reform: Black Populism. Between 1886 and 1898, tens of thousands of black farmers, sharecroppers, and...

American Cyclone

Theodore Roosevelt and His 1900 Whistle-Stop Campaign

by John M. Hilpert
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015

When Theodore Roosevelt entered national politics as the Republicans' nominee for the vice presidency in 1900, he was only forty-one years old. However, he had caught the public's attention with the popular version of his life story. Child of East Coast privilege. Sickly, bespectacled youth. Naturalist...
by Johnny E. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2003

What role did religion play in sparking the call for civil rights? Was the African American church a motivating force or a calming eddy? The conventional view among scholars of the period is that religion as a source for social activism was marginal, conservative, or pacifying. Not so, argues...
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