Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p><em>Lightless Mornings: A Fine Legacy</em> represents a personal interrogation and historical account of my great-great -great grandfather, W.D. McCurdy’s use of forced labor in his coalmines and cotton plantations in the Black Belt region of Alabama during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Through personal research including interviews with other descendents of McCurdy, as well as scholarly research about the practice of convict leasing in Alabama, I explore dynamics of inheritance, economics, power, privilege, race, class, geography, history, family, and identity.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- M.F.A.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Film, Theatre, and Communication Arts
- Year dc:date.available
- 2011
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
-
- Zeanah, Emily
- Contributors dc:contributor
-
- Bates, Randolph
- Hazlett, John
- Steeby, Elizabeth
Subjects
dc:subject × 2Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/445
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:scholarworks.uno.edu:td-1142