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Author:   Suzanne W. Jones ,  Mark Newman
Publisher:   VU University Press
Imprint:   VU University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 26.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 18.00cm
Weight:   0.412kg
ISBN:  

9789086590483

ISBN 10:   9086590489
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   01 December 2006
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

Progress from Poverty: Education and Self-improvement in Rural Regions; Sears, Roebuck Catalog Games: Shop Window and Southern Literature; Erskine Caldwell Anticipates the New South; The War on the Home Front: James Agee and the Making of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men; Progress through Rayon: The Nederlandse Kunstzijdefabriek in Hominy Valley, 1928-1940; Juneteenth: The Evolution of an Emancipation Celebration; The Never-ending Cycle of Poverty: Sarah E Wright's This Child's Gonna Live; Lyndon Johnson and Albert Gore: Southern New Dealers and the Modem South; From School Improvers to School Savers: Arlington Moderates and the Fight for Public Education, 1945-1959; The Mississippi Freedom Labour Union; From William Alexander Percy to Walker Percy: Progress or Regress?; A Sugar Cage: Poverty and Protest in Stephanie Black's H-2 Worker; Junkyard Tales: Poverty and the Southern Landscape in Janisse Ray's Ecology of a Cracker Childhood; The Southern Family Farm as Endangered Species: Possibilities for Survival in Barbara Kingsolver's Prodigal Summer; Southern Conservatives: Race and Poverty, 1980-2006.

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Suzanne W.Jones is the author of Race Mixing: Southern Fiction Since the Sixties, editor of Crossing the Color Line: Readings in Black and White, and coeditor of South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture. Mark Newman is the author of Divine Agitators: The Delta Ministry and Civil Rights in Mississippi and Getting Right with God: Southern Baptists and Desegregation 19451995.

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