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A companion to the Radical South, these pages provide key works by presenters and library resources to serve as a starting point for student research.
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Kiese Laymon “They Don’t Even Know” Black Southern Abundance in the Age of Donald Trump
Zandria Robinson “Guilty to the Charge”: Southerners Stating Facts in a Lying America
Ellen Spears Writing Histories of Environmentalism in the US South
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Kiese Laymon
“They don’t even know”:
Black southern abundance in the age of Donald Trump
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Long Division: a novel
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Call Number: PS3612.A959 L66 2013Kiese Laymon's debut novel is a Twain-esque exploration of celebrity, authorship, violence, religion, and coming of age in Post-Katrina Mississippi, written in a voice that's alternately funny, lacerating, and wise. -
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
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Call Number: PS3612.A959 Z46 2013Laymon detailed his experience of racism at Millsaps, and as a coming-of-age black man in Mississippi, in his essay for Gawker, 'How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America'
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Abundance and Scarcity
Photograph: Arron Turner, Mississippi Deltas series
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'Stony the Road' to Change: Black Mississippians and the culture of social relations
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Argues for non-traditional approaches to studying the Black experience - a focus away from race relations and issues of class and an emphasis on intragroup interaction. Investigates the processes, social institutions, and structures within the Black community of a small college town that influence social change and social action since the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
Writing Histories of Environmentalism in the US South
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Baptized in PCBs: race, pollution, and justice in an all-American town
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eBook. In the 1990s, residents of Anniston, Alabama, began a legal fight against the agrochemical company Monsanto over the dumping of PCBs in the city's historically African American and white working-class west side. A compelling narrative exposing how systemic racial and class inequalities reinforced during the Jim Crow era played out in these intense contemporary social movements.
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Landscapes and Ecologies of the U.S. SouthA special series on the landscapes and ecologies of the U.S. South in the journal Southern Spaces.
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Environmentalism in Mississippi
Bottomland hardwood forest in Wolf River Swamp, MS
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Creating Culture: It’s Easy to Change
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Crossroads Cultural CenterFB page. Crossroads Community Arts Center is a project of Cultural Revitalization Inc. (CRI) until this entity becomes their own 501c3 non-profit organization. This a cultural center, will include an art gallery, creative spaces for learning, a performance stage, a visiting artist’s loft, and more.
Zandria Robinson
“Guilty to the Charge”:
Southerners Stating Facts in a Lying America
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This ain't Chicago: Race, class, and regional identity in the post-soul south
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eBook. When Zandria Robinson returned home to interview African Americans in Memphis, she was often greeted with some version of the caution "I hope you know this ain't Chicago." In this important new work, Robinson critiques ideas of black identity constructed through a northern lens and situates African Americans as central shapers of contemporary southern culture. Analytically separating black southerners from their migrating cousins, fictive kin, and white counterparts, Robinson demonstrates how place intersects with race, class, gender, and regional identities and differences. -
Repositioning Race: Prophetic research in a post-racial Obama age
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eBook. Leading African American sociologists assess the current state of race theory and racial discrimination in order to chart a path toward a more engaged public scholarship. They contemplate the paradoxes of Black freedom and the paradoxes of equality and progress for the progeny of the civil rights generation in the wake of the election of the first African American president.
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Our Town
student protester during 2013 ASB flag vote
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Riots and Rumors of Riots: Lessons from the University of MississippiOriginally published in the 2012 issue of The Griot. Zandria Robinson directly addresses problems at 'Ole' Miss. Excerpt: "Still, as institutions like the University of Mississippi continue to focus on recruitment, rather than on fundamentally changing campus climates, the face of administration, and practices that disadvantage and discourage faculty of color (and indeed most faculty who are not single white men), little will be done to ease the exodus of people of color."
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Reading the Comments
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eBook. Internet commentary-reviews, fanfic, likes, tweets, posts, and comments-provides a fascinating look at human behavior in an environment that dissociates us from social norms and allows for instantaneous and anonymous participation. A look at - "the bottom of the web"- to find out what drove a bookstore owner to visit the home of a negative reviewer, why businesses invest in fake reviews and Twitter followers, and why people ask Reddit "Am I Ugly?"
