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Author
Publisher
Crown
Publication Date
[2025]
Language
English
Description
"The James Beard Award-winning author of The Potlikker Papers tells the story of how food and restaurants helped him heal from the racism ingrained in his Southern roots-and give him hope for the possibility of reckoning with our nation's painful history"-- Provided by publisher.
Publisher
Hub City Press
Publication Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This fierce collection celebrates the incredible diversity in the contemporary South by featuring essays by twenty-one of the finest young writers of color living and working in the region today, who all address a central question: Who is welcome? Kiese Laymon navigates the racial politics of publishing while recording his audiobook in Mississippi. Regina Bradley moves to Indiana and grapples with a landscape devoid of her Southern cultural touchstones,...
Author
Publisher
The Teaching Company
Publication Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
'To know the history of the American South, within its own context, is to come to terms with one of modern history's most astonishing, polarizing, and illuminating stories. In these 24 lectures, you'll relive the unforgettable drama of the South, from the rise and fall of the slave South to the making of the New South, examining the full scope of a historical epoch that still affects life in the United States today, through essential topics such as:...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Publication Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A collection of essays written for the column "The high & the low" in the magazine Garden & gun.
"A wry and humorous take on life and culture in the American South. In thinking about her native land, Julia Reed quotes another Southern writer, Willie Morris, who said, "It's the juxtapositions that get you down here." These juxtapositions are, for Julia, the soul of the South and in her warmhearted and funny new book, South Toward Home, she chronicles...