Up South in the Ozarks : dispatches from the margins /

"Up South in the Ozarks: Dispatches from the Margins is a collection of essays from Brooks Blevins that explore southern history and culture using [the] author's native Ozarks region as a focus. From migrant cotton pickers and fireworks peddlers to country store proprietors and shape-note...

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Main Author: Blevins, Brooks, 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Fayetteville : The University of Arkansas Press, 2022.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Ozarks and Dixie: considering a region's southernness
  • Fireworking down South
  • The South according to "Andy"
  • Where everything new is old again: southern gospel singing schools
  • Against the current: landowners and the fight for Ozarks streams
  • The country store: in search of mercantiles and memories in the Ozarks
  • Rethinking the Scots-Irish Ozarks: diversity and demographics in regional history
  • Revisiting race relations in the Upland South: Lacrosse, Arkansas
  • The Spruills: who and why?
  • Collectors of the Ozarks: folklore and regional image
  • The ordinary days of extraordinary Minnie: diaries of a life on the margins
  • A time zone away and a generation behind: Appalachia and the Ozarks
  • Back to the land: academe, the agrarian ideal, and a sense of place.