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Showing 1 to 20 of 95 for “"American South"”.
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Sustainable Wastewater Treatment in the American South
… treatment technologies are being used in the American South through a focused sample of six cities across the region: Austin, Texas; Fayetteville, Arkansas; Hattiesburg, Mississippi; Memphis, Tennessee; Ocean Springs, Mississippi; and Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The study assesses the types of …
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Paradidomi: magical realism and the American South
… Luanne Richardson, a librarian who has moved<br/>South with her new boyfriend, Kenneth Miers. As soon as they arrive in Peebles, North<br/>Carolina, Kenneth disappears. Luanne only knows that he last visited a particular house that<br/>belongs to the Mathers, the richest family in Peebles. Luanne …
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Political violence in the American South: 1882-1890
The racial status quo in the American South persisted through an unspoken detente between the federal government and the Southern state governments during the second half of the 19 th century. The political disenfranchisement of blacks took place in distinct stages following Reconstruction. In the …
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Enslaved People's Environmental Thought in the Antebellum American South
In the first half of the nineteenth century, the American South was a region undergoing rapid social and environmental change. As cotton cultivation reshaped the physical landscape, Americans theorized about the relationship between people and their environments. From transcendentalism to …
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Folk Music As A Cultural Signifier In the Contemporary American South
<p>Given the continued success of a Southern folk music tradition that makes it a priority to maintain its distinctive regional and historical markings in the postmodern world, the music itself presents interesting possibilities for the evolving conceptions of Southern identity, particularly in in …
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Reaping the "Colored Harvest": The Catholic Mission in the American South
… the story of the Roman Catholic mission in the American South. On one hand, the Church committed itself to providing access to quality education in underserved southern black communities. The establishment of southern Catholic schools for African American children supported the nation's …
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Y'all Think We're Stupid: Deconstructing Media Stereotypes of The American South
… the various stereotypes that persist about the American South, giving consideration to the common stereotypes, their persistence, and the response of Southerners and non-Southerners to them. Further, it aims to examine in-depth the methods by which these stereotypes are perpetuated, such as …
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The language and politics of place: autobiographical curriculum in the American South
Place is central to the study of the American South. The question of the meaning and power of place underpinned the earliest efforts to define and understand the region, and place remains a crucial concept in an ongoing process of regional identification and inquiry. This study explores southern …
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The Ladies’ Land League and Irish-American Identity in the American South
… roles of print capitalism and the development of Southern Irish-American identity.</p>
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Art of the American *South, 1915--1945: Picturing the Past, Portending Regionalism
Southern art has received little scholarly attention. Archival sources are used here to document the development of regionalism in the South and to examine the work of Frank London, Hobson Pittman and Mary Tannahill from North Carolina; Alfred Hutty, Anna Heyward Taylor and Elizabeth O'Neill Verner …
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Being Hindu in the American South: Hindu Nationalist Discourse in a Diaspora Community
… minority” by the mainstream because of Asian American economic success. However, as religious and racial minorities, Indian immigrants and Indian Americans just as frequently face ignorance and discrimination. This rejection by mainstream society, combined with a desire to reconnect with the …
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Out Of This World: Hearing Indigenous And Immigrant Music In The American South
… regarding traditional music in the U.S. South attempts to transcend outdated confines and limitations, the region itself experiences significant and unforeseen demographic changes. These cultural shifts call into question the foci of documentary efforts and trigger a reassessment of the …
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“I Pledge Allegiance”: Examining Motivations for Sport Fanship and Fandom in the American South
… in Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, and South Carolina. Social identity theory (Tajfel & Turner, 1986) was used as the theoretical framework for this dissertation to further understand the formation of groups and the in-group/out-group dynamic. Academic, as well as applied, implications …
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Blood at the Root: Of Myth, Food, Race, and Landscape in the American South
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Blood at the Root: Of Myth, Food, Race, and Landscape in the American South
To be added later.
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The Adorable Trinity: Old Columbia Seminary’s Stand for Trinitarianism in the Nineteenth-Century American South
… Trinitarianism in the nineteenth-century American South. This dissertation asserts that understanding the debate between the Old Columbia Trinitarians<br/>over against the Unitarians is crucial for any adequate interpretation of nineteenth-century Southern religious history and that within …
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From Walter Scott to Cormac McCarthy : Scottish Romanticism and the novel from the American South
… Romantic-era writing on the novel from the US South, demonstrating the formative impact of writers such as Walter Scott and James Hogg on the development of Southern writing, but also the ways in which Southern writers critique and revise this heritage. The thesis illustrates the significance …
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Slavery beyond slavery: the American South, British imperialism, and the circuits of capital, 1833-1873
“Slavery Beyond Slavery: The American South, British Imperialism, and the Circuits of Capital, 1833-1873” expands upon W.E.B. Du Bois’s insight that U.S. slavery intensified and transformed the exploitation of labor on a global scale. In places of intense colonial conflict and breakdown—India’s …
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The Wind Goes On: 'Gone with the Wind' and the Imagined Geographies of the American South
… collective memory on the construction of the Old South, Civil War, and Lost Cause in the American imagination from 1936 to 2016. By utilizing the concept of prosthetic memory in conjunction with older, still-existing forms of collective cultural memory, Gone with the Wind is framed as a newly …
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Participation in a shifting global context? A case study of labor and faith in the American South
Farmworker ministries provide essential goods and services as well as spiritual support to migrant farmworkers living abroad. While faith-based organizations and/or ministries are key to supporting migrant and/or refugee populations in the U.S., scholars have conducted little research on these …
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