Writing the South through the Self: Explorations in Southern Autobiography

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241 INDEX Abbott, Shirley, 146–48, 159 Abernathy, Ralph, 126 Abiding Appalachia (Awiakta), 188 Alabama, 4, 27–28, 32, 39–40, 43–44, 94–95, 113, 138–40 Allegheny Mountains (Pa.), 172–73 Allison, Dorothy, 94 All Over but the Shoutin’ (Bragg), 4–6, 38–39, 94 Alther, Lisa, 190–91 American Dilemma, An (Myrdal), 100 Americus, Ga., 117–18 Amos and Andy, 35, 126 Anderson, Marion, 121 Andrews, Raymond, 59–60, 69 Angelou, Maya, 2, 22–24, 98, 119–20, 127, 128 Anniston, Ala., 43, 133 Appalachia, southern, ix, 13–14, 81, 161–95 passim; return to the land, 170, 172–77 passim. See also Blue Ridge Mountains; Great Smoky Mountains Archery, Ga., 85, 117–18 Ariyoshi, Koji, 194–95 Arkansas, 22, 25, 54, 94, 98, 111 Asheville, N.C., 115 At Home in the Heart of Appalachia (O’Brien), 181 Athens, Ga., 194–95 Athens, Ohio, 176 Atlanta, Ga., 61, 105–6, 113, 117, 119, 143 Atlanta race riot, 48–49 Atlanta University, 105 Augusta, Ga., 78, 119, 143, 193, 195, 196 Austin, Tex., 110–11, 131, 146 autobiography: and adolescence, ix, 11–12, 18, 27–41 passim, 50, 75–76; and character education, ix, 18–19, 40, 42–43, 47, 82, 90–91, 97; and childhood , 6–7, 14, 18–19, 35–36, 50–51, 95–96; and community, 1–2, 4, 15, 18, 55–56, 90–91; defined, 201n2; as history, xi-xii, 1, 4–6, 9, 11–12, 15–16, 18, 46; multicultural, 8, 14, 187–99 passim; and place, 2–3, 14, 15, 161–86 passim, 202n4; subjectivity of, 3, 8–10; as teaching tool, ix, 9, 12, 16, 17–19, 30, 42, 45–47 Awiakta, Marilou, 188–89 Ayers, Edward J., 101, 224n20 Bacon County, Ga., 2 Baker, Ray Stannard, 100 Baker, Russell, 24–25 Baltimore, Md., 20, 24–25, 81, 86, 102, 109 Barnard College, 120–21 Barnes, Catherine, 102 Baxley, Ga., 105 Beals, Melba Pattillo, 28 Beard, Charles, 15 Beaufort, S.C., 44–45, 155 Beauty before Comfort (Glock), 165 Berry, Bill, 11 242 ‡ index Beyond the Binary (Powell), 187 Birmingham, Ala., 27–28, 32–34, 35 Birth of a Nation, The, 34, 36, 136 Bjorklund, Diane, 19 Black Boy (Wright), 7, 53, 57, 111 Blacksburg, Va., 167, 185 Blair, Aneita Jean, 165–66, 184, 185 Blue Ridge Mountains, 157, 172. See also Appalachia, southern Boles, John, 11 Bontemps, Arno, 120 Bowers, Sam, 29 Braden, Anne, 43–44, 133–34 Bragg, Rick, 4–6, 38–39, 94–95 Brenau College, 93, 134–36 Brooks, Sara, 113 Brown, Henry “Box,” 102 Browning, Joan, 141–43, 159 Brown v. Board of Education, 138, 144 Brunswick, Ga., 114 But Now I See (Hobson), 11, 75–76 Cable, George Washington, 188 Caldwell, Erskine, 78–80, 92, 194–95 Campbell, Will D., 204n26 Cannon, Poppy, 122 Carnera, Primo, 23–24 Carolina Playmakers (unc), 156 Carry Me Home (McWhorter), 32 Carter, Asa Earl, 192 Carter, Dan, 192 Carter, Forrest, 192 Carter, Hodding, 26 Carter, Jimmy, 24–25, 83–85, 92, 117–18 Carter, Lillian, 83–84 Carter, Mae Bertha, 28–29 Central High School (Little Rock), 18, 28 chain gangs, 81–82, 84, 92 Chambliss, Robert, 33–34 Chapel Hill, N.C., 63, 148–50, 156 Charlotte, N.C., 135, 156 Chattanooga, Tenn., 85–86, 137 Cherokee Indians, 59–60, 62, 175, 187–90, 192–93. See also mixed-race identity Chicago, Ill., 25, 112 Childhood: A Biography of a Place (Crews), 2, 94–95 children and race, 6–7, 11–12, 19–23, 28–39 passim, 50–51, 53, 98–99, 111, 124–25 Chinese identity, 15, 193–94 Church, Robert, 103–4, 107 Citadel, the, 155 Citizen’s Council, 29, 145 Civil Rights Act (1877), 105 civil rights movement, 30, 126, 204n16; in Alabama, 27–28, 32–34, 138–40; in Arkansas, 18, 28; in Georgia, 143; in Mississippi, 28–30, 31–35; in South Carolina, 44–45; in Texas, 145; in West Virginia, 35 Clayton, Ga., 81 Clemson University, 157 Clinton, Bill, 94 Cobbs, Elizabeth, 33–34 Cofer, Judith Ortiz, 10, 196–97 Cohen, Edward, 151–55, 159 Cohn, David, 7 Coke, Allison Adelle Hedge, 189 college experience, 13, 21, 56–57, 95, 131–60 passim; African American, 220n2; memories of, 158–60, 223n55, 223n58; southern whites in North, 219–20n2 College Years, The (Spectorsky), 132 Colored People (Gates), 8, 35 Coming of Age in Mississippi (Moody), 26 index ‡ 243 Confessions of...