Title: Varieties of southern history : new essays on a region and its people /
Authors: Clayton, Bruce.; Salmond, John A.
Publisher: Greenwood Press,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Southern States History.
Contents: 1. Stories of Enslavement: A Person-Centered Ethnography from an Eighteenth-Century Virginia Plantation / Rhys Isaac -- 2. Texts, Texture, and Context: Toward an Ethnographic History of Slave Resistance / Charles Joyner -- 3. Reading the Slave Body: Demeanor, Gesture, and African-American Culture / Shane White and Graham White -- 4. Deadly Amusements: Spectacle Lynchings and Southern Whiteness, 1890-1940 / Grace Elizabeth Hale -- 5. Who Were the Victims of Lynchings? Evidence from Mississippi and South Carolina, 1881-1940 / Terence Finnegan -- 6. Thomas Thistlewood Becomes a Creole / Trevor Burnard -- 7. Doing God's Service: Adelbert Ames and Reconstruction in Mississippi / Warren A. Ellem -- 8. Frank Cushing and W.E.B. Du Bois: Religion, Social Science, and Traveling South in the Late Nineteenth Century / Sam Elworthy -- 9. Race, Gender, and Modernism: The Case of Lillian Smith / Bruce Clayton -- 10. Aspects of Modernization in the Loray Mill Strike of 1929 / John Salmond.