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Author Robinson, Zandria F., author.

Title This ain't Chicago : race, class, and regional identity in the post-soul South / Zandria F. Robinson
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2014]
©2014

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Description 1 online resource
Series New directions in Southern studies
New directions in southern studies.
Contents Preface -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: Region, Race, and Identities -- Finding the Black South -- Post-Soul Blues -- Not Stud'n' 'em White Folks -- Belles, Guls, and Country Boys -- Southern Is the New Black -- CONCLUSION: Black Identity Redux -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary "When Zandria Robinson returned home to interview African Americans in Memphis, she was often greeted with some version of the caution "I hope you know this ain't Chicago." In this important new work, Robinson critiques ideas of black identity constructed through a northern lens and situates African Americans as central shapers of contemporary southern culture. Analytically separating black southerners from their migrating cousins, fictive kin, and white counterparts, Robinson demonstrates how place intersects with race, class, gender, and regional identities and differences. Robinson grounds her work in Memphis--the first big city heading north out of the Mississippi Delta. Although Memphis sheds light on much about the South, Robinson does not suggest that the region is monolithic. Instead, she attends to multiple Souths, noting the distinctions between southern places. Memphis, neither Old South nor New South, sits at the intersections of rural and urban, soul and post-soul, and civil rights and post-civil rights, representing an ongoing conversation with the varied incarnations of the South, past and present."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed August 4, 2021)
Subject African Americans -- Tennessee -- Memphis
African Americans -- Race identity -- Tennessee -- Memphis
African Americans -- Social conditions -- 1975-
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
African Americans
African Americans -- Race identity
African Americans -- Social conditions
Race relations
Social conditions
SUBJECT Memphis (Tenn.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Memphis (Tenn.) -- Social conditions
Subject Tennessee -- Memphis
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781469614243
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9781469614236
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