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The Reading Habits of Ante-Bellum Southerners
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Function and Pain in Community-Dwelling, Adult Mid-Southerners with Limb Loss
… demographics of community-dwelling, adult Mid-Southerners with limb loss. Estimate the relationship between function and pain, health status, and demographics of community-dwelling, adult Mid-Southerners with limb loss. Estimate the joint influences on function by pain, health status, and …
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A Curriculum of Place: Who Are We? Southerners Beneath the Red Clay and the Black Dirt
<p>This study is an inquiry into the South as a place where race, class, and gender are interconnected to language, culture, identity, education, and religion to develop unique Southern identities. Drawing upon a vast body of literature in critical consciousness (Freire, 1974, 1995, 1998, 2001, …
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The Fragile "Bonds of Whiteness": Relationships Between Native White Southerners and Foreigners in Porter, Mccullers, and O'Connor
<p>This thesis will focus on Katherine Anne Porter's 'Noon Wine,' Carson McCullers' The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, and Flannery O'Connor's 'The Displaced Person.' In each work, the author constructs dynamics between the native, white Southerner and the white foreigner (of Swedish, Grecian, and …
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Keeping America a white man’s country: Southern opposition to civil rights in the united states senate
… emphasized constitutional interpretations from southerners like John Calhoun, over time, southerners adapted their arguments to appeal to more conservative colleagues that were either skeptical of invoking cloture, or worried about the invasive nature of civil rights legislation. Over the course …
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The Peculiar Solution: The American Colonization Society and Antislavery Sentiment in the South, 1820-1860
… there are reasons to believe that many white Southerners doubted slavery's morality. First, the attributes displayed by manumitted emigrants---the talents and intelligence which led ACS slaveholders to reject proslavery arguments---were no different than the faculties exhibited by other …
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Gaslight, Progress, and the Old South, 1801-1865
… recent interest in the efforts of antebellum southerners to modernize their society, the role of gaslight technology in the southern campaign to modernize on their own terms has remained wholly neglected in the scholarly literature. Most scholars of lighting technology are aware that in 1802, …
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Fighting for Independence and Slavery: Confederate Perceptions of Their War Experiences
It is striking that many white southerners enthusiastically went to war in 1861, and that within four years a large number of them became apathetic or even openly hostile toward the Confederacy. By far, nonslaveholders composed the greatest portion of the disaffected. This work interprets the …
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James Edwin Horton, Jr.: Scottsboro Judge.
… when faced with factual reality. Rarely do Southerners inspect their traditions, and even more rarely do they find them lacking. This phenomenon is exemplified in many areas of Southern life. The intricate and complex voting requirements contrived by Southern states at the turn of the …
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Y'all Think We're Stupid: Deconstructing Media Stereotypes of The American South
… 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 literature, movies, television, and music. Within this dissertation, pieces of literature by traditional …
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Race Reform in the Early Twentieth Century South: The Life and Work of Willis Duke Weatherford.
… argued that the ethics of Christianity obligated Southerners to address the social and economic problems faced by blacks in the early twentieth century. His strategy for improving race relations centred on educating Southerners and promoting economic uplift for blacks. Weatherford advocated race …
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The South According To Quentin Tarantino
… Quentin Tarantino’s portrayal of the South and southerners in his films Pulp Fiction (1994), Death Proof (2007), and Django Unchained (2012). In order to do so, it explores and explains Tarantino’s mixture of genres, influences, and filmmaking styles in which he places the South and its …
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Virginians' Responses to the Gettysburg Address, 1863-1963
… paper will bring to light what Civil War-era Southerners thought of the Gettysburg Address. This work is confined to Virginia not because that state is representative of the Confederacy, but because Southern reporting on the Address was wholly shaped by the Richmond papers. The first two …
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The Influence of Literacy on the Lives of Twentieth Century Southern Female Minority Figures
… illiteracy stereotype, which suggests that southerners are collectively unconcerned with education and the pursuit of knowledge. In an effort to examine this idea in the context of literature, this thesis addresses the historical research done in this field that argues southerners were …
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The Burden of Western History: Kansas, Collective Memory, and the Reunification of the American Empire, 1854-1913
… of several attempted "subjugations"--that of Southerners over Northerners, Northerners over Southerners, whites over African Americans, and whites over Native Americans--as foundational to understanding the genesis of Kansans,' and by extension, Americans' collective memory of the war. In …
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The free world confronted: the problem of slavery and progress in American foreign relations, 1833-1844
… be expected to frustrate their larger purpose. Southerners’ assurance in the security of slavery diminished after 1843. Approached by the British government with an overture for an immigration agreement that would bring laborers to Britain’s island possessions, Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur …
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A Legacy Cut Short The Impact of Pepperdine University on African Americans and South Los Angeles from 1937 – 1981
… to the California gold rush in the 1800s, White Southerners seeking quick wealth flocked to the “free-state” of California. These new settlers included enslaved Africans, religion, and Southern attitudes that set the foundation for California to be a Southern-attitude state, which eventually …
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No Foreign Despots on Southern Soil: The American Party in Alabama and South Carolina, 1850-1857
… also known as the Know Nothing Party, rallied southerners culturally and politically around nativism, an anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic ideology. This thesis studies nativism in the Deep South and challenges existing scholarship by Tyler Anbinder and William Darrell Overdyke. Anbinder claims …
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Exhibiting Women: Sectional Confrontation and Reconciliation in the Woman's Department at the World's Exposition, New Orleans, 1884-85
… and famous women visitors, and these southerners insinuated their voices into the national debate on late-nineteenth-century women's issues.
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Late Summer Weather
… Weather portrays Northern Californians and Southerners who are forced to deal with failed careers, misguided artistic pursuits and awkward attempts at romance. Set against the backdrop of California's economic decline, the story takes place in Sacramento's vibrant and somewhat claustrophobic …
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