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Stars Fell on Alabama is truly a classic. The book enjoyed enormous popularity and notoriety when it was first published (it was a selection of The Literary Guild and also sold widely in Europe). It can be described as a book of folkways-not journalism, or history, or a novel. At times it is impress...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Carmer, Carl, 1893-1976
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2000.
Edición:New edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Travel.
Race relations.
Manners and customs.
Folklore.
African Americans > Social life and customs.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Folklore > Alabama.
Noirs americains > Alabama > Moeurs et coutumes.
African Americans > Alabama > Social life and customs.
Alabama.
Alabama > Relations raciales.
Alabama > Descriptions et voyages.
Alabama > Moeurs et coutumes.
Alabama > Race relations.
Alabama > Description and travel.
Alabama > Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The ""Strange Country""
  • Howell Raines; Foreword; Author's Note; Part I. Tuscaloosa Nights; I.I Arrive; II. Tuscaloosa; III. Black Rituals; 1. Golf Course Cabin; 2. Shoutin' in Moonlight; IV. Flaming Cross; Part II. In the Red Hills; I. Ladies Bow, Gents Know How; II. All-day Singing; III. Footwashing; IV. Sweet William Came from the Western States; V. Court Week; VI. Birmingham; Part III. Black Belt; I. Greene County Rally; II. Big House; 1. Thorn Hill; 2. Rosemount; 3. Gaineswood and Bluff Hall; III. Plaisant Pays de France; IV. Front Gallery.
  • 1. The Tale of the Gilded Mirror2. The Tale of the Wedding Ring; 3. The Tale of the White Dove; 4. The Tale of the Stud Nigger; V. The Tombigbee Outlaws; 1. Railroad Bill; 2. The Outlaw Sheriff of Sumter County; 3. Rube Burrow: Alabama Robin Hood; VI. God in the Canebrake; 1. Ben Delimus; 2. The Sims War; 3. The Prophetess of Eutaw; VII. White Man's Nigger: I; VIII. Miss Polly; IX. Brer Rabbit Multiplies; X. Lynching; Part IV. Conjure Country; I. Two-Toe Tom; II. A Good Man to Work For; III. Processional; IV. White Man's Nigger: II; V. Conjure Woman; VI. Reminiscence.
  • Part V. Mobile and the Bayou CountryI. Mobile; II. Coq d'Inde; III. Dauphin Island; Part VI. Cajan; I. Citronelle; II. The Hell-Raisin'; III. Twilight of the Races; Afterword; From the Author's Notebook.

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