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Identifying the antebellum era in the United States as a transitional setting, Imagining Southern Spaces´investigates spatialization processes about the South during a time when intensifying debates over the abolition of slavery led to a heightened period of (re)spatialization in the region. Taking the question of abolition as a major factor that shaped how different actors responded to these processes, this book studies spatial imaginations in a selection of abolitionist and proslavery literature of the era. Through this diversity of imaginations, the book points to a multitude of Souths in various economic, political, and cultural entanglements in the American Hemisphere and the Circumatlantic. Thus, it challenges monolithic and provincial representations of the South as a provincial region distinct from the rest of the country.
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"Exploring various methodological and theoretical approaches to pre-Columbian visual culture, the essays in this volume reconstruct dynamic accounts of Native American history across the U.S. Southeast"--
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"The color line, once all too solid in southern public life, still exists in the study of southern history. As distinguished historian Nell Irvin Painter notes, we often still write about the South as though people of different races occupied entirely different spheres. In truth, although blacks and whites were expected to remain in their assigned places in the southern social hierarchy throughout the nineteenth century and much of the twentieth century, their lives were thoroughly entangled. This edition features refreshed essays and a new preface that sheds light on the development of Painter's thought and our continued struggles with racism in the twenty-first century"--
Racism --- History --- Southern States --- Historiography. --- Race relations.
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The Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, standing 198.49 feet, is the tallest brick lighthouse in the United States. From 1803, when the first Cape Hatteras Lighthouse was built, to today, it cast its light over the waters off the Outer Banks of North Carolina, also called the "Graveyard of the Atlantic." Its history--stretching from Augustin-Jean Fresnel's lens laboratory in France to the beaches of Hatteras Island where the lighthouse keepers labored--includes war, shipwrecks, hurricanes, and cutting-edge technology. Due to politics, funding, and its precarious location, it took great effort to erect and protect a lighthouse built on a barrier island. The supporters and caretakers were many, including Alexander Hamilton in the 1700s and children donating coins to a statewide preservation campaign in 1982. In the 21st century, the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse continues to send out its beam to mariners.
NATURAL DISASTERS --- SOUTHERN STATES --- NATURE --- HISTORY
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"A unforgettable memoir of a "gospel gypsy" childhood in the 1950s, touring revivals and singings as a part of the Singing Joneses"--
Revivals --- Gospel singers --- History --- Garner, Anita Faye, --- Southern States --- Religious life and customs. --- Southern States.
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"An account of the musical career of the Drive-By Truckers, especially as it and its music relate to now sociopolitically fraught icons and narratives of the Deep South"--
Rock musicians --- Southern States. --- Drive-By Truckers (Musical group) --- Southern States --- Civilization.
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"À la fois concis et ambitieux, ce livre retrace l’histoire de la lutte des Noirs américains pour l’égalité et la citoyenneté dans les années 1950 et 1960. S’émancipant d’une histoire focalisée sur les figures iconiques comme Rosa Parks ou Martin Luther King, Thomas Holt propose une histoire from below (« par en bas ») qui met les anonymes au centre de la narration pour mieux restituer les logiques profondes du « Mouvement ». Symboliquement, l’auteur débute son récit en 1944 par le geste de sa propre grand-mère Carrie s’asseyant à l’avant d’un bus, espace réservé aux Blancs. Loin d’en faire une héroïne, l’auteur rappelle qu’il y eut de nombreux actes de rébellion semblables. Ces multiples actions individuelles, souligne-t-il, permirent l’émergence du Mouvement des droits civiques qui allait s’épanouir au cours de la décennie suivante. À côté d’un récit précis des faits majeurs, Thomas Holt montre donc que la résistance a été animée avant tout par des citoyens ordinaires, souvent des femmes, ouvrant la voie aux mouvements féministes de l’après-Seconde Guerre mondiale. Cet ouvrage constitue un apport précieux à l’étude des résistances à l’oppression raciale et une boussole pour penser notre présent et envisager l’avenir." À la fois concis et ambitieux, ce livre retrace l'histoire de la lutte des Noirs américains pour l'égalité et la citoyenneté dans les années 1950 et 1960. S'émancipant d'une histoire focalisée sur les figures iconiques comme Rosa Parks ou Martin Luther King, Thomas Holt propose une histoire from below (" par en bas ") qui met les anonymes au centre de la narration pour mieux restituer les logiques profondes du " Mouvement ".Symboliquement, l'auteur débute son récit en 1944 par le geste de sa propre grand-mère Carrie s'asseyant à l'avant d'un bus, espace réservé aux Blancs. Loin d'en faire une héroïne, l'auteur rappelle qu'il y eut de nombreux actes de rébellion semblables. Ces multiples actions individuelles, souligne-t-il, permirent l'émergence du Mouvement des droits civiques qui allait s'épanouir au cours de la décennie suivante.À côté d'un récit précis des faits majeurs, Thomas Holt montre donc que la résistance a été animée avant tout par des citoyens ordinaires, souvent des femmes, ouvrant la voie aux mouvements féministes de l'après-Seconde Guerre mondiale. Cet ouvrage constitue un apport précieux à l'étude des résistances à l'oppression raciale et une boussole pour penser notre présent et envisager l'avenir.
African Americans --- Civil rights movements --- Southern States --- United States
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"C. T. Vivian's life was never defined by the discrimination and hardship he faced, although there were many instances of both throughout his lifetime. The late civil rights leader instead focused on his faith in God and his steadfast belief in nonviolence, extending these principles nationwide as a member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. It's In the Action contains Vivian's recollections, ranging from finding religion at the young age of five to his imprisonment as part of the Freedom Rides. The late civil rights leader's heart wrenching and inspiring stories from a lifetime of nonviolent activism come just in time for a new generation of activists, similarly responding to systems of injustice, violence, and oppression. It's In the Action is a record of a life dedicated to selflessness and morality, qualities achieved by Vivian that we can all aspire to"--
Nonviolence. --- Vivian, C. T. --- Southern States --- Race relations.
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An emotional recounting of animal rescue during the aftermath of one of the nation's worst storms.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005. --- Animal rescue. --- 2005 --- Southern States.
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"Explores the archaeology of Mississippian households and communities using new data and advances in method and theory"--
Social archaeology --- Home economics --- Households --- Indians of North America --- Mississippian culture. --- History. --- Dwellings --- Antiquities. --- Southern States. --- Southern States --- Indigenous people --- Dwellings.
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