Showing papers in "Journal of Southern History in 1984"
TL;DR: Baker as discussed by the authors showed how the "blues voice" and its economic undertones are both central to the American narrative and characteristic of the Afro-American way of telling it.
Abstract: Relating the blues to American social and literary history and to Afro-American expressive culture, Houston A. Baker, Jr., offers the basis for a broader study of American culture at its "vernacular" level. He shows how the "blues voice" and its economic undertones are both central to the American narrative and characteristic of the Afro-American way of telling it.
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TL;DR: Taps for a Jim Crow Army as discussed by the authors is a collection of letters written by black soldiers in the 1940s to various government and nongovernment officials, expressing their disillusionment, rage, and anguish over the discrimination and segregation they experienced in the Army.
Abstract: Many black soldiers serving in the U.S. Army during World War ll were hopeful that they might make permanent gains as a result of their military service and their willingness to defend their country. They were soon disabused of such illusions. Taps for a Jim Crow Army is a powerful collection of letters written by black soldiers in the 1940s to various government and nongovernment officials. In these letters, the soldiers expressed their disillusionment, rage, and anguish over the discrimination and segregation they experienced in the Army. Most black troops were denied entry into army specialist schools; black officers were not allowed to command white officers; black soldiers were served poorer food and were forced to ride Jim Crow military buses into town and to sit in Jim Crow base movie theaters. In the South, German POWs could use the same latrines as white American soldiers, but blacks could not. While poring over records at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., Phillip McGuire discovered hundreds of government-classified letters written by black soldiers. He has selected and commented on a number of them here, covering a broad range of abuses and injustices suffered. And he has left them as they were written, sometimes eloquent, often ungrammatical, always deeply emotional. The original foreword by Benjamin Quarles, professor emeritus of history at Morgan State University, and a new foreword by Bernard C. Nalty, the chief historian in the Office of Air Force History, offer rich insights into the world of these soldiers.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a collection of essays comments on the pre-World War II culture of the United States, when David O. Selznick and his colleagues produced movies and TV shows.
Abstract: This collection of essays comments on the pre-World War II culture of the United States, when David O. Selznick produced
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TL;DR: In the last decade, a number of important studies have been carried out on the relationships among environment, diseases, and mortality in the North American colonies during the eighteenth century as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: IN THE LAST DECADE A NUMBER OF IMPORTANT STUDIES HAVE ANAlyzed the relationships among environment, diseases, and mortality in the North American colonies during the eighteenth century. In spatial terms the emphasis in these studies has been a little lopsided because most of the work has focused upon New England and the Chesapeake regions, and little attention has been given to the lower South. I An equally obvious imbalance is apparent in the method followed in treating the environment in these studies: almost without exception the perceptual environment has been largely ignored.2
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TL;DR: In a letter to Governor Brown in the spring of 1864, Harlan Fuller wrote, "I am liable at any time to be taken away from my little crops leaving my family almost without provisions & no hope of making any crop atal. I have sent six sons to the war & now the 7th enrolled he being the last I have no help left atal." Though Fuller described his poor health, he concluded that he was no shirker in the cause, he showed how his dilemma applied to state and Confederate taxes as well as the draft as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: the poor man's fight, and that the abolition of slavery would not injure the poor, who are not slaveholders." I One "poor man" from north Georgia spoke for thousands when he wrote Governor Brown as supplicant to patron in the spring of 1864. Not quite fifty years old and thus subject under the recently extended military ages to be called away to action, Harlan Fuller wrote, "I am liable at any time to be taken away from my little crops leaving my family almost without provisions & no hope of making any crop atal. I have sent six sons to the war & now the 7th enrolled he being the last I have no help left atal." Though Fuller described his poor health, he concluded, "I dont mind the battle field but how can any man be there & hear both at the same time." In an attempt to demonstrate that he was no shirker in the cause, he showed how his dilemma applied to state and Confederate taxes as well as the draft. "I have paid all Tythe & Tax held against me with the acception of 25 lb of bacon which is out of my power to pay til I can make another crop for I have not got that amount in the world."2