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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Southern culture"”.
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The Crescent and the Cross: Islamic Influence in Southern Culture
… degree, America has adopted African American culture as its own. One may hear and see African American influence in popular music, grammar, fashion and art, but rarely are the sources of these influences divined, in no small part to difficulties inherent in interdisciplinary studies. This …
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“All the Land Thrown Open:” Southern Culture and Southern Baptist Chaplains: 1861-1865
Southern Baptist chaplains informed Confederate culture and religious belief during the American Civil War by contributing to a unique narrative of Southern identity. One sees the narrative through the letters and sermons of these chaplains to the working- class soldiery. Encompassed in Southern …
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THE REAL ATLANTA: REPRESENTATIONS OF BLACK SOUTHERN CULTURE, MASCULINITY, AND WOMANHOOD AS SEEN IN SEASON ONE OF THE FX SERIES ATLANTA
… into conversations on hip-hop and Black culture through what has been considered an authentic representation of Black Atlanta. This paper examines tropes of Southerness and perceived homophobia in hip-hop and Black culture while analyzing the way in which the series creators and producers …
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Distorted Traditions: the Use of the Grotesque in the Short Fiction of Eudora Welty, Carson Mccullers, Flannery O'connor, and Bobbie Ann Mason.
… of the assault of modernity on traditional Southern culture. The basic conflict between the views of Bakhtin and Kayser provides the foundation for defining the grotesque herein, and Geoffrey Harpham's concept of "margins" helps to define interior and exterior areas for the discussion. …
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One or Two Things I Know About Us: Narrative Strategies for Autoethnography, Self-Representation and Healing in Four Memoirs by Poor-white Women from the U.S. South
… autobiographical writings by formerly poor white Southern women, who are rarely considered as a group and are more typically studied with “rough South” male writers, which would suggest that few women have contributed their own gendered experience to discussions of class, race, and sexuality …
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Power of the Southern melting pot: analysis of Joel Chandler Harris’s Uncle Remus as Southern folklore and cultural appropriation
… War psyche, attempting to preserve the ideal Southern past. Such preservation efforts are literally significant for they provide examples of appropriation that are done not out of an attempt to oppress European and African culture, but to integrate it into the developing Southern culture. The …
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Southern Sound And Space: An Exploration Of The Sonic Manifestation Of Place
… time, and the influence of “place,” particularly southern places, on the creative process of contemporary musicians. The work also investigates the possibility of a comsouthern sound or auditory essence which may be embedded within all of the musical genres popularly thought to owe their lineage …
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Honor and the Southern lady: The persitence of antebellum ideology among elite Southern women, 1820-1877
Honor and the Southern Lady: The Persistence of Antebellum Ideology Among Elite Southern Women, 1820-1877 investigates whether the war permanently changed elite white women's legal, economic and social status, gender relations and race relations. Southern honor and slavery were the social and …
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Dishonorable Treatment: Workplace Incivility, Cultures of Honor, and Work Outcomes
… region and whether or not they are located in a culture of honor. In cultures of honor, such as the Southern U.S. region, individuals are theorized to be especially sensitive to insults or challenges to their reputation. Using archival data from a national sample of law school faculty members (N …
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I eat shit food and am not worthy: Negotiating the queer weight of "white trash" embodiment in Dorothy Allison's Corpus
… representational and lived southern culture, and specifically how queer and “white trash” embodiments are both legible in terms of fatness, much in the way that gravy thickens in Allison’s writing to envelop and signify simultaneously lack and excess, shame and ecstasy, …
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The Significance of "Dwelling Place" Through Representations of Memory in the Carter Family Fold
… for tourists interested in Appalachian history, Southern culture, and traditional music. It also serves as a "memory place" (Dickinson, Blair, and Ott: 2011) for local residents and musicians who value the CFF as an authentic reflection of an endangered culture. This project engages community …
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Beyond The Fields
… my work deals with the ideas of blackness and southern culture. Born in Memphis, Tennessee on the heels of the civil rights movement, I cannot help but to be shaped by the aftermath of integration and the ideals of equality. The south is more than a geographical location; it is a cultural …
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The Life And Songwriting Of Vic Chesnutt
… can only be properly told through the lens of southern culture. He was not just a charter member of an international group, but a southern songwriter whose rural Georgia upbringing was paramount to his work. He has often been compared in music journals to the southern gothic schoolmates of …
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The Women of Waterford, Virginia: Gender, Unionism, Quakerism and Identity in the American Civil War
… to the United States, their ostracization from southern culture, and their Quaker faith. In particular, the women of this community became exceptionally vocal with their displeasure with the Confederacy. In the last year of the Civil War they made the deliberate choice to publicly assert their …
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"...Bless her little heart!": The Culture of Honor and Emotion Recognition
… examined the display rule of masking within the Southern culture of honor. It was hypothesized that masking within the culture of honor negatively affects emotion perception sensitivity, particularly in the speed and accuracy of recognizing anger. Southern undergraduate students were primed with …
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"Conserving" The Middle Ground: Tennessee's Unionist Press in the Secession Crisis, 1860-1861
… unified message—influenced by Whig political culture—that framed their response to outside events. This unanimity fractured in 1861 as local pressures, business interests, and personal choices compounded to force editors to choose sides regarding secession.</p> <p>This study engages with the …
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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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Faulkner And "The Football"
… in suggesting that the importance of sports in Southern culture might be used as a lever to quell racial tension and bring about the eventual integration of the region.
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We Didn't Get Famous: the Story of the Southern Music Underground, 1978-1990
This thesis examines the emergence of the Southern indie music scene in the 1980s as both a rejection of the broader punk scene that had swept America and the UK in the 1970s and the blues and country inflected Southern Rock that preceded it in the 1970s. I first had the idea of doing a project on …
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Can We Have It All? Painting a Picture of the Adjunct, Clinical, and Tenured/ Tenure-Track Faculty Mother Experience At a Large Southern Public Research University
… as both a faculty member and a mother within the southern culture of a large, public research institution located in the southeastern region of the United States. The study focused on better understanding adjunct, clinical, and tenure-track faculty mothers' integration and/or separation of the two …
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