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Author : Elizabeth Bronwyn Boyd
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820368924
Author : Julie Hines Mabus
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496840165
In the late 1960s, Patsy Channing, a stunningly beautiful young woman, was suspended from the venerable Mississippi State College for Women for breach of conduct. The resulting scandal reached all the way to the Columbus courthouse, and the press ate it up. But Patsy’s story starts long before that, living with a preoccupied and troubled mother in Memphis, Tennessee. As Patsy grows up, she buries the memories of her unspeakable childhood trauma and is determined to have a normal life. Music becomes her ticket out and a vehicle for the one thing she covets most—a chance to be crowned Miss America. In Confessions of a Southern Beauty Queen, Julie Hines Mabus provides a peek into that world—a world struggling through the civil rights movement, reeling from the death of JFK, and cutting loose with the musical innovations from Memphis and Detroit. Patsy develops a close friendship with a guitarist at Stax Recording Studio, giving her firsthand exposure to the early Memphis Soul Sound created by such greats as Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes, and Sam & Dave. Confessions of a Southern Beauty Queen opens and closes with the end of Patsy’s time at Mississippi State College for Women on that fateful spring morning in 1968 when she entered the Columbus courthouse. Patsy’s story, marked with tragedy and triumph, mirrors that of a growing and evolving South, where change never comes easy.
Author : Elizabeth Bronwyn Boyd
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820362304
Southern Beauty explains a curiosity: why a feminine ideal rooted in the nineteenth century continues to enjoy currency well into the twenty-first. Elizabeth Bronwyn Boyd examines how the continuation of certain gender rituals in the American South has served to perpetuate racism, sexism, and classism. In a trio of popular gender rituals—sorority rush, beauty pageants, and the Confederate Pageant of the Natchez (Mississippi) Pilgrimage—young white southern women have readily ditched contemporary modes of dress and comportment for performances of purity, gentility, and deference. Clearly, the ability to “do” white southern womanhood, convincingly and on cue, has remained a valued performance. But why? Based on ethnographic research and more than sixty taped interviews, Southern Beauty goes behind the scenes of the three rituals to explore the motivations and rewards associated with participation. The picture that Boyd paints is not pretty: it is one of southern beauties securing status and sustaining segregation by making nostalgic gestures to the southern past. Boyd also maintains that the audiences for these rituals and pageants have been complicit, unwilling to acknowledge the beauties’ racial work or their investment in it. With its focus on performance, Southern Beauty moves beyond representations to show how femininity in motion—stylized and predictable but ephemeral—has succeeded as an enduring emblem, where other symbols faltered, by failing to draw scrutiny. Continuing to make the moves of region and race even as many Confederate symbols have been retired, the southern beauty has persisted, maintaining power and privilege through consistent performance.
Author : Phaedra Parks
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476715469
The breakout star of The Real Housewives of Atlanta, who is known for being the ultimate Southern Belle, advises women on fashion, etiquette, dating and the workplace, giving a modern twist to traditional Southern values.
Author : Nancy Bercaw,Ted Ownby
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781469616728
This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture reflects the dramatic increase in research on the topic of gender over the past thirty years, revealing that even the most familiar subjects take on new significance when viewed through the lens of gender. The wide range of entries explores how people have experienced, understood, and used concepts of womanhood and manhood in all sorts of obvious and subtle ways. The volume features 113 articles, 65 of which are entirely new for this edition. Thematic articles address subjects such as sexuality, respectability, and paternalism and investigate the role of gender in broader subjects, including the civil rights movement, country music, and sports. Topical entries highlight individuals such as Oprah Winfrey, the Grimke sisters, and Dale Earnhardt, as well as historical events such as the capture of Jefferson Davis in a woman's dress, the Supreme Court's decision in Loving v. Virginia, and the Memphis sanitation workers' strike, with its slogan, "I AM A MAN." Bringing together scholarship on gender and the body, sexuality, labor, race, and politics, this volume offers new ways to view big questions in southern history and culture.
Author : Charles Reagan Wilson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781469616704
This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture addresses the cultural, social, and intellectual terrain of myth, manners, and historical memory in the American South. Evaluating how a distinct southern identity has been created, recreated, and performed through memories that blur the line between fact and fiction, this volume paints a broad, multihued picture of the region seen through the lenses of belief and cultural practice. The 95 entries here represent a substantial revision and expansion of the material on historical memory and manners in the original edition. They address such matters as myths and memories surrounding the Old South and the Civil War; stereotypes and traditions related to the body, sexuality, gender, and family (such as debutante balls and beauty pageants); institutions and places associated with historical memory (such as cemeteries, monuments, and museums); and specific subjects and objects of myths, including the Confederate flag and Graceland. Together, they offer a compelling portrait of the "southern way of life" as it has been imagined, lived, and contested.
Author : Kathryn Kaleigh
Publisher : KST Publishing Inc
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781647912017
North and South. Enemies and Lovers. Two standalone American historical romance novels. Twins. One sister. One brother. One country turned against itself. HEARTS UNDER SIEGE War lands on the south's doorstep. Leaving no one unscathed. Brittany Couvion must do her part to save the Confederacy, even putting her own life in danger. Brandon McIntyre fights battles of his own and will do whatever it takes to protect Brittany. With danger at every corner, will either of them survive? An enchanting and spellbinding historical romance set against the backdrop of the American Civil War. HEARTS UNDER FIRE Following a steamboat explosion, Southerner Jeffrey Couvion must make a choice no man should have to make. A choice affecting not only himself, but all those in his world, including his twin sister. He knows what he must do. What any man of good conscience would do. But only he knows at what cost. When he meets southern belle Claire, he finds not only his life in danger, but his heart as well. And everything he thought he knew about himself turned upside down. A spellbinding historical romance set against the backdrop of the American Civil War. NOVELS in the series: Love Always Beyond Enemy Lines Hearts Under Siege Hearts Under Fire Wait for Me Take Me Home Keep Me Safe Away Down South in Dixie The Reluctant Bride
Author : Blain Roberts
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469614212
From the South's pageant queens to the importance of beauty parlors to African American communities, it is easy to see the ways beauty is enmeshed in southern culture. But as Blain Roberts shows in this incisive work, the pursuit of beauty in the South was linked to the tumultuous racial divides of the region, where the Jim Crow-era cosmetics industry came of age selling the idea of makeup that emphasized whiteness, and where, in the 1950s and 1960s, black-owned beauty shops served as crucial sites of resistance for civil rights activists. In these times of strained relations in the South, beauty became a signifier of power and affluence while it reinforced racial strife. Roberts examines a range of beauty products, practices, and rituals--cosmetics, hairdressing, clothing, and beauty contests--in settings that range from tobacco farms of the Great Depression to 1950s and 1960s college campuses. In so doing, she uncovers the role of female beauty in the economic and cultural modernization of the South. By showing how battles over beauty came to a head during the civil rights movement, Roberts sheds new light on the tactics southerners used to resist and achieve desegregation.
Author : Arnel R. Hallauer
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000-08-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781420038569
Completely revised and updated, the Second Edition of Specialty Corns includes everything in the first edition and more. Considered the standard in this field, significant changes have been made to keep all the information current and bring the references up-to-date. Two new chapters have been added to keep up with the latest trends: Blue Corn and Baby Corn. Access the latest methods in developing specialty corns with this standard-setting reference. Edited by an expert in the field who has spent his professional life working with corn, Specialty Corns, Second Edition discusses the genetic variation inherent in corn, genetic materials available, breeding methods, and special problems associated with the development of specialty corns. Hallauer has assembled a team of international experts who have contributed to this work.
Author : Brian Blashfield
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781796070927
The Bradford Legacy is the story of Carter Bradford, a fabulously rich descendant of an American family of entrepreneurs with a financial empire worth billions. Carter is a seriously flawed human being suffering from destructive narcissism and is, by all standards of measurement, a sociopath. From his earliest years Carter has been manipulative and cruel but amazingly charming when the need was there. Following his grandfather, Hiram Bradford, Carter chooses a political career and sets his sights on the Presidency. As the story progresses Carter uses his wealth and political power, augmented by a willingness to commit murder, to reach his goals. In many ways Carter Bradford is an extreme example of the worst of any number of American politicians or, maybe he isn’t. Let the reader judge.
Author : Lin Lin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108423557
Provides an in-depth comparative, empirical and critical analysis of the law and practice of venture capital in China.
Author : Lynn Abbott,Doug Seroff
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781496810038
Blues Book of the Year —Living Blues Association of Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence Best Historical Research in Recorded Blues, Gospel, Soul, or R&B–Certificate of Merit (2018) With this volume, Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff complete their groundbreaking trilogy on the development of African American popular music. Fortified by decades of research, the authors bring to life the performers, entrepreneurs, critics, venues, and institutions that were most crucial to the emergence of the blues in black southern vaudeville theaters; the shadowy prehistory and early development of the blues is illuminated, detailed, and given substance. At the end of the nineteenth century, vaudeville began to replace minstrelsy as America’s favorite form of stage entertainment. Segregation necessitated the creation of discrete African American vaudeville theaters. When these venues first gained popularity, ragtime coon songs were the standard fare. Insular black southern theaters provided a safe haven, where coon songs underwent rehabilitation and blues songs suitable for the professional stage were formulated. The process was energized by dynamic interaction between the performers and their racially-exclusive audience. The first blues star of black vaudeville was Butler “String Beans” May, a blackface comedian from Montgomery, Alabama. Before his bizarre, senseless death in 1917, String Beans was recognized as the “blues master piano player of the world.” His musical legacy, elusive and previously unacknowledged, is preserved in the repertoire of country blues singer-guitarists and pianists of the race recording era. While male blues singers remained tethered to the role of blackface comedian, female “coon shouters” acquired a more dignified aura in the emergent persona of the “blues queen.” Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and most of their contemporaries came through this portal; while others, such as forgotten blues heroine Ora Criswell and her protégé Trixie Smith, ingeniously reconfigured the blackface mask for their own subversive purposes. In 1921 black vaudeville activity was effectively nationalized by the Theater Owners Booking Association (T.O.B.A.). In collaboration with the emergent race record industry, T.O.B.A. theaters featured touring companies headed by blues queens with records to sell. By this time the blues had moved beyond the confines of entertainment for an exclusively black audience. Small-time black vaudeville became something it had never been before—a gateway to big-time white vaudeville circuits, burlesque wheels, and fancy metropolitan cabarets. While the 1920s was the most glamorous and remunerative period of vaudeville blues, the prior decade was arguably even more creative, having witnessed the emergence, popularization, and early development of the original blues on the African American vaudeville stage.
Author : Charles Reagan Wilson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0820329657
Religion has permeated nearly every aspect of modern southern culture in the US, with results that range from portraits of Jesus on black velvet to the soul-stirring orations of Martin Luther King Jr. This work gives an appraisal of religion's influence on such expressions of regional life as literature, music and folk art.
Author : Nina Silber
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1997-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807846856
The reconciliation of North and South following the Civil War depended as much on cultural imagination as on the politics of Reconstruction. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Nina Silber documents the transformation from hostile sectionalism to sentimen
Author : Standard Poland-China Record Association, Maryville, Mo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1164 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Poland-China swine
ISBN : CORNELL:31924089853554