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"Grif Stockley grew up the ""rotten-spoiled"" son of white landowners in post-WWII eastern Arkansas, ""an agricultural paradise or hell, depending on your perspective."" Hypogrif in Bubbaville is more than a memoir, for Stockley opens ""a window on the dominant white culture"" of the Jim Crow-era Mississippi River Delta, exposing his childhood home, his family, and especially himself, to unblinking scrutiny. Stockley weaves a deeply personal narrative into the most formative events of his generation. Through accounts of his service as a Peace Corps volunteer in rural Colombia, a state-side Army draftee during the Vietnam War, a legal advocate for the poor and mentally ill, a civil rights activist, a novelist and award-winning author of books on the history of race relations in Arkansas, Stockley examines ""the advantages and consequences of Southern white male heterosexual privilege"" as they manifested in his own life. For those seeking greater insight into the legacy of racism and white supremacy that continues to haunt the South, Hypogrif in Bubbaville is an essential testament."

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... an honest, intimate post-WWII journey through the Jim Crow South of Arkansas, beginning with his unquestioning perceptions as a white, privileged spoiled rotten man-child to the cynical, discerning judgment of an enlightened adult. Importantly, his family and friends are not left out of the trip as he lays out the brutal oppression and exploitation of the black sharecropping population... - Leon Dash, Professor of Journalism, University of Illinois College of Law, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Rosa Lee ... black and white southerners describe the South in such like descriptions until it gets to the relationships between blacks and whites, and the underbelly of that relationship. Grif Stockley is one of a few white southern writers who does this without a hint of stretching on his part. ... At some point, he removed the proverbial rose-tinted glasses - and paid witness to southerner-ness from a perspective of humanity, rather than his whiteness. - Janis F. Kearney, diarist to President Bill Clinton and author of Cotton Field of Dreams ... Stockley abandons the burden of racism, devoting his life to social justice and correcting Arkansas's historic record in regard to racial transgressions. In his pursuit of truth, he finds a life richer and more fulfilling than he ever imagined. Stockley's memoir renews the belief that we can overcome racism and atone for our nation's sins. - Brian K. Mitchell, Assistant Professor of History, University of Arkansas Little Rock, and co-author of Blood in Their Eyes ...Grif subjects his family's past, as well as his own, to the same thorough interrogation that he has brought to bear upon such events as the Elaine Massacre of 1919 ... Hypogrif in Bubbaville is not only a memoir-it is a map from our perennial state of despair to a state that I would dare call enlightenment. - Guy Lancaster, editor of the online Encyclopedia of Arkansas, and co-author of Blood in Their Eyes

"""... an honest, intimate post-WWII journey through the Jim Crow South of Arkansas, beginning with his unquestioning perceptions as a white, privileged ""spoiled rotten"" man-child to the cynical, discerning judgment of an enlightened adult. Importantly, his family and friends are not left out of the trip as he lays out the brutal oppression and exploitation of the black sharecropping population..."" - Leon Dash, Professor of Journalism, University of Illinois College of Law, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Rosa Lee ""... black and white southerners describe the South in such like descriptions until it gets to the relationships between blacks and whites, and the underbelly of that relationship. Grif Stockley is one of a few white southern writers who does this without a hint of stretching on his part. ... At some point, he removed the proverbial rose-tinted glasses - and paid witness to southerner-ness from a perspective of humanity, rather than his whiteness."" - Janis F. Kearney, diarist to President Bill Clinton and author of Cotton Field of Dreams ""... Stockley abandons the burden of racism, devoting his life to social justice and correcting Arkansas's historic record in regard to racial transgressions. In his pursuit of truth, he finds a life richer and more fulfilling than he ever imagined. Stockley's memoir renews the belief that we can overcome racism and atone for our nation's sins."" - Brian K. Mitchell, Assistant Professor of History, University of Arkansas Little Rock, and co-author of Blood in Their Eyes ""...Grif subjects his family's past, as well as his own, to the same thorough interrogation that he has brought to bear upon such events as the Elaine Massacre of 1919 ... Hypogrif in Bubbaville is not only a memoir-it is a map from our perennial state of despair to a state that I would dare call enlightenment."" - Guy Lancaster, editor of the online Encyclopedia of Arkansas, and co-author of Blood in Their Eyes"

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Grif Stockley is an author, historian, and attorney known for his dedication to advancing civil rights after coming of age in the Jim Crow South. His Gideon Page series of legal mystery novels became popular in the 1990s. His non-fiction titles exploring the history of race relations in Arkansas have earned him widespread acclaim. Stockley has been awarded the Porter Prize, the Booker Worthen Literary Prize (twice), and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Arkansas Historical Association.

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