Writing the South through the Self: Explorations in Southern Autobiography

Contents

vii CONTENTS Preface ix Introduction 1 CHAPTER 1 Lessons from Southern Lives: Teaching Race through Autobiography 17 CHAPTER 2 “I Learn What I Am”: Adolescent Struggles with Mixed-Race Identities 48 CHAPTER 3 “All Manner of Defeated, Shiftless, Shifty, Pathetic and Interesting Good People”: Autobiographical Encounters with Southern White Poverty 73 CHAPTER 4 Railroads, Race, and Remembrance: The Traumas of Train Travel in the Jim Crow South 98 CHAPTER 5 “I’m Better Than This Sorry Place”: Coming to Terms with Self and the South in College 131 CHAPTER 6 Sense of Place, Sense of Being: Appalachian Struggles with Identity, Belonging, and Escape 161 Afterword. “Getting Pretty Fed Up with This Two-Tone South”: Moving toward Multiculturalism 187 Notes 201 Selected Bibliography 229 Index 241 This page intentionally left blank ...