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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"White Southerners"”.
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The Fragile "Bonds of Whiteness": Relationships Between Native White Southerners and Foreigners in Porter, Mccullers, and O'Connor
… author constructs dynamics between the native, white Southerner and the white foreigner (of Swedish, Grecian, and Polish descent, respectively). I propose that the Southerner's perception of the foreigner may be understood in terms of three criteria: the foreigner's physical appearance, the …
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The Peculiar Solution: The American Colonization Society and Antislavery Sentiment in the South, 1820-1860
… South, 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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A Legacy Cut Short The Impact of Pepperdine University on African Americans and South Los Angeles from 1937 – 1981
<p>Due 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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“‘With God For Us, We Must Be Successful’: Nationalism, Slavery, and Death in the Civil War Letters of Robert Franklin Bunting”
… utilizes Bunting’s letters to understand how white southerners understood and interacted with the primary social issues in the Civil War. Specifically, it examines how Bunting understood nationalism, slavery, and death. His perception of these issues flowed from his religious worldview. As …
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This ain't your daddy's dixie: explaining partisan change in southern U.S. House elections, 1988-2004
… (1) increasing Republican identification among white southerners, (2) redistricting, and (3) the emergence of viable Republican candidates. In the extant literature, these factors are often analyzed separately, but these factors are complementary and each is necessary to account for partisan …
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Thomas H. Brewer and the Struggle for Civil Rights
… school segregation unconstitutional, many white southerners felt anger, fear, and uncertainty about how this court decision would affect their lives.</p> <p>Their culture based on racial segregation was threatened with destruction. "Separate but equal, " which had stood for sixty years, …
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"Black and White Together, We Shall Win": Southern White Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
… often been characterized as a simple battle of white racists against black activists. Drawing heavily on oral histories, personal publications, and Mississippi Sovereignty Commission reports, this thesis examines the unconventional stories of white southerners who transcended the segregationist …
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Africa, Appalachia, and acculturation: The history of bluegrass music
Though primarily associated with white Southerners, bluegrass music is actually the product of over three hundred years of black and white musical interaction that occurred in the American Southeast. This document begins by reviewing the first complete definition of bluegrass music written by Mayne …
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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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Case Not Closed: Whiteness and the Rhetorical Genres of Freedom Summer
This dissertation examines the role of whiteness and its relationship to identification in rhetorical representations of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project. Texts examined at length include recruitment materials, media coverage, pamphlets, and letters produced during the project, as well …
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The Role of Violence in Hunt County, Texas, during Reconstruction
… the stationing of federal troops, conservative whites throughout the state became defiant toward the federal government and its policies. Some white southerners even went so far as to take up arms and become embroiled in open conflict with the federal government and its local institutions. As a …
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Southern Pride and Yankee Presence: The Limits of Confederate Loyalty in Civil War Mississippi, 1860-1865
… Confederate nationalism as weak or strong, with white southerners either united or divided in their desire for Confederate independence. This study breaks this impasse by viewing Mississippians through the lens of different, co-existing loyalties that in specific circumstances indicated neither …
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“The Union of the South is the Safety of the South”: Conspiracy Theories, Sectionalism and the Secession Crisis in Virginia
… how secessionists used distortions to unite white southerners in defense of slavery.
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DEFYING CONVENTION: ATYPICAL PERSPECTIVES OF SLAVERY IN ANTEBELLUM NEW ORLEANS
… The traditional view has emphasized an image of white southerners as slaveholders and blacks as slaves. In New Orleans, the lives of three men—all of whom were tied to slavery in varying capacities—reveal a much more nuanced picture of American slavery. John McDonogh, a white slaveowner and …
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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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"Our Generation Had Nothing to Do with Discrimination": White Southern Memory of Jim Crow and Civil Rights
The ways in which white Americans understand the racial landscape and their own racial identities are not well understood. Through the lens of the racial past, in this study I investigate how memory operates within the white racial frame, the dominant white-centric worldview, to uphold systemic …
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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 …