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This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture offers a timely, authoritative, and interdisciplinary exploration of issues related to social class in the South from the colonial era to the present. With introductory essays by J. Wayne Flynt
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Larry J. Griffin
Slavery is a tragic chapter in the history of Wilkes County with a lasting legacy. Prominent businessmen and celebrated civic leaders, like General William Lenoir and William Pitt Waugh, were among the county's largest slaveholders. Judith Williams B
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Larry J. Griffin, Kenneth A. Bollen
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American Sociological Review. 74:594-614
Scholarly inquiry into collective memory has fostered a host of innovative questions, perspectives, and interpretations about how individuals and communities are both constituted by the past and mobilize it for present-day projects. Race is one of th
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Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie. 26:37-68
Comment et pourqui la dynamique des classes varie-t-elle d'un pays capitaliste democratique a l'autre, alors que I'on s'attendrait a decouvrir un scenario commun? On ne trouve que peu d'evaluations d'ensemble de cette question qui soient d'inspiratio
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Larry J. Griffin, Peggy G. Hargis
Publikováno v:
The Southern Literary Journal. 40:42-69
This much we know; the past is not really, can never be, past at all. It is recalcitrant, stubbornly refusing to go away or be discarded. It haunts recovery and sabotages amnesia. The past reminds--makes--us who we are and, sometimes, when we acknowl
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Larry J. Griffin, Peggy G. Hargis
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Southern Cultures. 14:117-141
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s transformed the United States. After decades of struggle and sacrifice, it prodded the federal government to ban racial discrimination in public facilities, to pass fair housing
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Larry J. Griffin
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Southern Cultures. 14:141-150
"Not all 'cool' identities are equally cool. If the socially constructed identity of American Indian is cool, for most people it is cooler to have Indian ancestry than to be Indian."
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Larry J. Griffin
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Southern Cultures. 12:6-28
Each region of the United States has a particular identity hewn from history and culture. Yet none is as distinctive as the American South, and none has been imbued with such historical weight in the nation's making or afforded such metaphorical sign
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Larry J. Griffin
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Southern Cultures. 12:98-107
Southerners have every right to be proud of the music we have produced and bequeathed to the entire globe. American popular culture would be unimaginable without the music--blues and rock 'n' roll, jazz and country, gospel and bluegrass, salsa and zy
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Larry J. Griffin
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Southern Cultures. 12:66-74
My firmly devout Church of Christ grandmother from the hills of east Mississippi dipped snuff for most of her eighty-five years. She wasn't proud of her habit--tried to hide it, in fact--but couldn't seem, or maybe didn't really wish, to stop. Althou