By Celeste Ray

ISBN-10: 0807831239

ISBN-13: 9780807831236

ISBN-10: 0807858234

ISBN-13: 9780807858233

Transcending regular different types of "black" and "white," this quantity of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture complicates and enriches our figuring out of "southernness" by way of picking out the array of cultures that mixed to form the South. This exploration of southern ethnicities examines the methods humans practice and continue cultural identities via folklore, spiritual religion, gown, track, speech, cooking, and transgenerational tradition.

Accessibly written and proficient through the latest learn that recovers the ethnic variety of the early South and records the more moderen arrival of recent cultural teams, this quantity significantly expands upon the modest Ethnic lifestyles portion of the unique Encyclopedia. members describe 88 ethnic teams that experience lived within the South from the Mississippian interval (1000-1600) to the current. They comprise 34 American Indian teams, in addition to the numerous groups with ecu, African, and Asian cultural ties that got here to the zone after 1600. Southerners from all backgrounds tend to locate themselves represented here.

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