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Sterling A. Brown's A Negro looks at the South / edited by John Edgar Tidwell and Mark A. Sanders.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Sterling A., 1901-1989.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Southern States--Social life and customs--20th century.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Southern States--Social conditions--20th century.
- African Americans--Southern States--Biography.
- Oral history.
- Country life--Southern States--History--20th century.
- Country life.
- Community life--Southern States--History--20th century.
- Community life.
- Manners and customs.
- History.
- Social conditions.
- Southern States--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Southern States.
- Southern States--Social conditions--1865-1945.
- Southern States--Race relations--History--20th century.
- Race relations.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 383 pages : portrait ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Negro looks at the South
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Contents:
- A Note on the Text xi
- Looking at Sterling A. Brown's South: An Introduction / John Edgar Tidwell, Mark A. Sanders 3
- "South on the Move" 19
- "Out of Their Mouths" 23
- By Way of Autobiography
- "Old Buck" 37
- "Old Man McCorkle" 51
- "Bus Station" 54
- "Club Car" 59
- "Roommate" 62
- "Return of the Native" 64
- Jim Crow Journal
- "On the Government" 81
- "V for Victory" 90
- "Jim Crow Snapshots" 93
- "A Harvardian Goes South" 94
- "Separate but Equal" 95
- "Fats" 97
- "Words on a Bus" 100
- "Georgia Nymphs" 103
- "And/Or" 109
- Gone with the Wind
- "I Look at the Old South" 115
- "Sister Cities" 118
- "Gone with What Wind" 124
- "Symbol of the Old South" 131
- "A Tour of History: Old New Orleans" 138
- "Gee's Bend" 149
- "Low Cotton" 161
- "Take Your Coat Off, Gene!" 165
- "Insurance Executive" 171
- "Let's Look at Your Base" 182
- "Meekness in Bronze" 187
- "No Ties That Bind" 190
- Academic Retreat
- "The Little Gray Schoolhouse" 199
- "The Path to Alcorn" 206
- "And Gladly Teach" 207
- "What Could Freddie Say?" 214
- "One Language, One People" 218
- "Vicious Circle" 222
- "The Palmer Case" 225
- "Signs of Improvement" 233
- "Colleges: Retreat or Reconnaissance" 239
- Pursuit of Happiness
- "And He Never Said a Mumbalin' Word" 253
- "Song Hunter" 261
- "The Duke Comes to Atlanta" 272
- "Farewell to Basin Street" 275
- "Po' Wanderin' Pildom, Miserus Chile" 281
- "Jitterbugs' Joy" 285
- "From Montmartre to Beaver Slide" 291
- Men of War
- "Soldiers of Construction" 301
- "Cubs" 307
- "Primary Field" 310
- "Count Us In" 317
- Annotations 345.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0195313992
- 9780195313994
- OCLC:
- 68623928
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