New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States

The concept of race relations is examined from the perspectives of miscegenation, the creation and cultural development of a mulatto people, and the misconceptions that the end of Black oppression would lead to the disappearance of a separate Black culture

NEW PEOPLE: MISCEGENATION AND MULATTOES IN THE UNITED STATES

Politics & Social Sciences

Joel Williamson

Social Sciences

Free Press

After The Negro in South Carolina During Reconstruction, 1861-1877

After Slavery: The Negro in South Carolina During Reconstruction, 1861-1877

History

Americas

W.W.Norton&Company

Origins of Segregation

D.C. Heath & Co.

In Elvis Presley: A Southern Life, one of the most admired Southern historians of our time takes on one of the greatest cultural icons of all time. The result is a masterpiece: a vivid, gripping biography, set against the rich backdrop of Southern society--indeed, American society--in the second half of the 20th century. Author of The Crucible of Race and William Faulkner and Southern History, Joel Williamson is a renowned historian known for his inimitable and compelling narrative style. In this tour de force biography, he captures the drama of Presley's career set against the popular culture of the post-World War II South. Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, Presley was a contradiction, flamboyant in pegged black pants with pink stripes, yet soft-spoken, respectfully courting a decent girl from church. Then he wandered into Sun Records, and everything changed. "I was scared stiff," Elvis recalled about his first time performing on stage. "Everyone was hollering and I didn't know what they were hollering at." Girls did the hollering--at his snarl and swagger. Williamson calls it "the revolution of the Elvis girls." His fans lived in an intense moment, this generation raised by their mothers while their fathers were away at war, whose lives were transformed by an exodus from the countryside to Southern cities, a postwar culture of consumption, and a striving for upward mobility. They came of age in the era of the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education ruling, which turned high schools into battlegrounds of race. Explosively, white girls went wild for a white man inspired by and singing black music while "wiggling" erotically. Elvis, Williamson argues, gave his female fans an opportunity to break free from straitlaced Southern society and express themselves sexually, if only for a few hours at a time.

Elvis Presley

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio

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