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418 books match the query 'Southern states' and 5 start with i
I'd Fight the World
A Political History of Old-Time, Hillbilly, and Country MusicPeter La Chapelle
University of Chicago Press, 2019
Immigrant Rights in the Nuevo South
Enforcement and Resistance at the Borderlands of IllegalityMeghan Conley
Temple University Press, 2020
Every day, undocumented immigrants are rendered vulnerable through policies and practices that illegalize them. Moreover, they are socially constructed into dangerous criminals and taxpayer burdens who are undeserving of rights, dignity, and respect. Meghan Conley’s timely book, Immigrant Rights in the Nuevo South, seeks to expose and challenge these dehumanizing ideas and practices byexamining the connections between repression and resistance for unauthorized immigrants in communities across the American Southeast.
Conley uses on-the-ground interviews to describe fear and resistance from the perspective of those most affected by it. She shows how, for example, the Illegal Immigration Reform and Enforcement Act in Georgia prompted marches and an action that became “a day of non-compliance.” Likewise, an “enforcement lottery” that created unpredictable threats of arrest and deportation in the region mobilized immigrants to organize and demonstrate. However, as immigrant rights activists mobilize in opposition to the criminalization of undocumented people, they may unintentionally embrace stories of who deserves to be in the United States and who does not. Immigrant Rights in the Nuevo South explores these paradoxes while offering keen observations about the nature and power of Latinx resistance.
Interest Group Politics in the Southern States
Ronald J. Hrebenar
University of Alabama Press, 1992
A comprehensive study of lobbying, advocacy, and political influence in the modern American South.
Interest Group Politics in the Southern States, edited by Ronald J. Hrebenar and Clive Thomas, is a pioneering examination of the organizations, lobbyists, and advocacy networks that shape public policy throughout the American South. Covering twelve Southern states, this influential volume moves beyond traditional studies of elections and race to explore the often-overlooked role of interest groups in legislative decision-making, public administration, and political power. Through detailed state-by-state analyses, the contributors investigate the structure, strategies, and influence of organizations representing business interests, agriculture, labor, education, professional associations, and citizen advocacy groups.
The book examines how lobbying tactics, regulatory environments, political cultures, and institutional structures vary across the South, revealing both common regional patterns and significant differences among individual states. By exploring states such as Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and Florida, the volume provides a rich comparative perspective on the forces that influence policymaking at the state level.
A landmark contribution to the study of Southern politics, this collection demonstrates the pivotal and sometimes controlling role of interest groups in public affairs. It remains an essential resource for understanding the dynamics of advocacy, lobbying, governance, and political influence in one of the nation's most complex and politically significant regions.
Inventing Authenticity
How Cookbook Writers Redefine Southern IdentityCarrie Helms Tippen
University of Arkansas Press, 2018
Tippen discusses the act of cooking as a way to perform—and therefore reinforce—the identity associated with a recipe, and the complexities inherent in attempts to portray the foodways of a region marked by a sometimes distasteful history. Inventing Authenticity meets this challenge head-on, delving into problems of cultural appropriation and representations of race, thorny questions about authorship, and more. The commonplace but deceptively complex southern cookbook can sustain our sense of where we come from and who we are—or who we think we are.
It Wasn't All Dancing and Other Stories
Mary Ward Brown
University of Alabama Press, 2001
This eagerly anticipated second volume of short stories is offered by nationally acclaimed writer Mary Ward Brown, often referred to as the “first lady” of Alabama letters
With the 11 stories in this long-awaited collection, Mary Ward Brown once again offers her devoted fans a palette of new literary pleasures. The hallmarks of her style, so finely wrought in the award-winning Tongues of Flame (1986)—the fully realized characters, her deep sensitivity, a defining sense of place and time—are back in all their richness to involve and enchant the reader.
All but one of the stories are set in Alabama. They deal with dramatic turning points in the lives of characters who happen to be southerners, many jaxtaposed between Old South sensibility and manners and New South modernity and expectations. Among these is a new widow who is not consoled by well-meaning, proselytizing Christians; a middle-aged waitress in love with the town “catch”; a bedridden belle dependent upon her black nurse; a “special” young man in a newspaper shop; a young faculty wife who attempts generosity with a lower-class neighbor; and a lawyer caught in the dilemma of race issues. Through their diverse voices, Brown proves herself a graceful and gifted storyteller who writes with an authoritative pen, inventing and inhabiting the worlds of her set of characters with insight, compassion, and wit.
Most of the stories in It Wasn't All Dancing have appeared previously in prominent national magazines and literary journals, including the Atlantic Monthly, Grand Street, and Threepenny Review. This fine collection should appeal to a wide audience among writers, literature scholars, and general readers alike.