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  • Telling about the South: An Autobiography of Antiquity

    Author(s)
    Carson, James
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Carson, James
    Year published
    2016
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    Abstract
    It was 1988. Winter semester of my sophomore year at the University of North Carolina had just started, and I had been lucky enough to get into a junior-year course on the history of the Old South. I had never heard a Mississippian speak until Professor Peter Walker went through the usual formalities that begin a course. He then drew a map of Mississippi on the blackboard, which he dotted with X’s that marked all kinds of places, a few of which I recognized. At first I figured those places had to be important, but then I realized that this might have been an exercise in driving home just how ignorant we all really were—at ...
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    It was 1988. Winter semester of my sophomore year at the University of North Carolina had just started, and I had been lucky enough to get into a junior-year course on the history of the Old South. I had never heard a Mississippian speak until Professor Peter Walker went through the usual formalities that begin a course. He then drew a map of Mississippi on the blackboard, which he dotted with X’s that marked all kinds of places, a few of which I recognized. At first I figured those places had to be important, but then I realized that this might have been an exercise in driving home just how ignorant we all really were—at least on the subject of where small towns in Mississippi are.
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    Journal Title
    Study the South
    Publisher URI
    https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/study-the-south/telling-about-the-south/
    Subject
    Historical studies
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/411038
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