Author : Donald Lee Grant
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 12,46 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820323299
Chronicles the black experience in Georgia from the early 1500s to the present, exploring the contradictions of life in a state that was home to both the KKK and the civil rights movement.
Author : South Walton Three Arts Alliance
Publisher :
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 21,24 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Walton County (Fla.)
ISBN : 9780966680508
Author : Roger Roberge Rainville
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,21 MB
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781945423048
If South Buffalo is part of your history or you are a part of it now, this is a great book for you: It touches on all of the South Buffalo areas and is guaranteed to have something interesting for every reader. Memories will flood in - Guaranteed!
Author : Dianne Swann-Wright
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 24,4 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780813921372
An African American folk saying declares, "Our God can make a way out of no way.... He can do anything but fail." When Dianne Swann-Wright set out to capture and relate the history of her ancestors--African Americans in central Virginia after the Civil War--she had to find that way, just as her people had done in creating a new life after emancipation. In order to tell their story, she could not rely solely on documents from the plantation where her forebears had lived. Unlike the register of babies born, marriages made, or lives lost that white families' Bibles contained, ledgers recorded Swann-Wright's ancestors, as commodities. Thus Swann-Wright took another route, setting out to gather spoken words--stories, anecdotes, and sayings. What results is a strikingly rich and textured history of a slave community. Looking at relations between plantation owners and their slaves and the succeeding generations of both, A Way out of No Way explores what it meant for the master-slave relation to change to one of employer and employee and how patronage, work relationships, and land acquisition evolved as the people of Piedmont Virginia entered the twentieth century. Swann-Wright illustrates how two white landowners, one of whom had headed a plantation before the Civil War, learned to compensate freed persons for their labor. All the more fascinating is her study of how the emancipated learned to be free--of how they found their way out of no way.
Author : Luther Adams
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 13,26 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 080783422X
"Adams makes a splendid contribution to the historical literature of the post-World War II years in African American and U.S. urban and social history. Grounded in careful research from a variety of primary and secondary sources, this book advances a comp
Author : Sujit Sivasundaram
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 42,45 MB
Release : 2021-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 022679041X
"Per the UK publisher William Collins's promotional copy: "There is a quarter of this planet which is often forgotten in the histories that are told in the West. This quarter is an oceanic one, pulsating with winds and waves, tides and coastlines, islands and beaches. The Indian and Pacific Oceans constitute that forgotten quarter, brought together here for the first time in a sustained work of history." More specifically, Sivasundaram's aim in this book is to revisit the Age of Revolutions and Empire from the perspective of the Global South. Waves Across the South ranges from the Arabian Sea across the Indian Ocean to the Bay of Bengal, and onward to the South Pacific and Australia's Tasman Sea. As the Western empires (Dutch, French, but especially British) reached across these vast regions, echoes of the European revolutions rippled through them and encountered a host of indigenous political developments. Sivasundaram also opens the door to new and necessary conversations about environmental history in addition to the consequences of historical violence, the extraction of resources, and the indigenous futures that Western imperialism cut short"--
Author : Michael W. Twitty
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 50,93 MB
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 0062876570
2018 James Beard Foundation Book of the Year | 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award Winner inWriting | Nominee for the 2018 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction | #75 on The Root100 2018 A renowned culinary historian offers a fresh perspective on our most divisive cultural issue, race, in this illuminating memoir of Southern cuisine and food culture that traces his ancestry—both black and white—through food, from Africa to America and slavery to freedom. Southern food is integral to the American culinary tradition, yet the question of who "owns" it is one of the most provocative touch points in our ongoing struggles over race. In this unique memoir, culinary historian Michael W. Twitty takes readers to the white-hot center of this fight, tracing the roots of his own family and the charged politics surrounding the origins of soul food, barbecue, and all Southern cuisine. From the tobacco and rice farms of colonial times to plantation kitchens and backbreaking cotton fields, Twitty tells his family story through the foods that enabled his ancestors’ survival across three centuries. He sifts through stories, recipes, genetic tests, and historical documents, and travels from Civil War battlefields in Virginia to synagogues in Alabama to Black-owned organic farms in Georgia. As he takes us through his ancestral culinary history, Twitty suggests that healing may come from embracing the discomfort of the Southern past. Along the way, he reveals a truth that is more than skin deep—the power that food has to bring the kin of the enslaved and their former slaveholders to the table, where they can discover the real America together. Illustrations by Stephen Crotts
Author : Carol Crane
Publisher : Count Your Way Across the U.S.
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,95 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781585362028
"Using numbers, many of South Carolina's state symbols, historic landmarks, and famous people are introduced. Topics include Boykin Spaniels, Four Holes Swamp, and Carolina Mantids"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Clarence Muse
Publisher :
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 26,42 MB
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9781977825865
This pseudo-novel's co-author, David Arlen, was famed African-American entertainer Clarence Muse's press representative. As such, he continually goaded his client to recall, in book form, his recollections of touring the early 20th Century southern Black vaudeville circuit. However, Muse - in the words of the old saying - was, apparently, too close to the forest to see the trees. Eventually, however, Arlen made a deal with his client; he would invite a roomful of mostly "civilian" (non-show biz) friends of his to assemble in Muse's digs, where the latter would recount anecdotes and perform songs from his earlier life on the road. If the gathering reacted in the positive fashion that Arlen expected, Muse would agree to collaborate with him on a book. And so, it went; the ad hoc performance was a hit. The result was this fascinating 1932 roman � clef.
Author : Alan Cross
Publisher : NewSouth Books
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 48,9 MB
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1603063560
When Heaven and Earth Collide is an investigation into what went wrong in the American South in regard to race and religion—and how things can be and are being made right. Why, in a land filled with Christian churches, was there such racial oppression and division? Why didn’t white evangelicals do more to bring racial reconciliation to the South during the 19th and 20th centuries? These questions are asked and answered through an exploration of history, politics, economics, philosophy, and social and theological studies that uncovers the hidden impetus behind racism and demonstrates how we can still make many of the same errors today—just perhaps in different ways. The investigation finally leads us in hopeful directions involving how to live out the better way of Jesus with an eye on heaven in a world still burdened and broken under the sins of the past.
