Store besparelser
Hurtig levering
Gemte
Log ind
0
Kurv
Bøger
Bestsellers
Kommer snart
Nyheder
Spil og hobby
Kurv
  1. Bog
  2. US South: West South Central States
  3. Texas

Leavin' a Testimony

- Portraits from Rural Texas
Af: Patsy Cravens Engelsk Hardback

Leavin' a Testimony

- Portraits from Rural Texas
Af: Patsy Cravens Engelsk Hardback
Tjek vores konkurrenters priser

First settled by Stephen F. Austin''s colonists in the early nineteenth century, Colorado County has deep roots in Texas history. Mainly rural and agrarian until late in the twentieth century, Colorado County was a cotton-growing region whose population was about evenly divided between blacks and whites. These life-long neighbors led separate and unequal lives, memories of which still linger today. To preserve those memories, Patsy Cravens began interviewing and photographing the older residents of Colorado County in the 1980s. In this book, she presents photographs and recollections of the last generation, black and white, who grew up in the era of Jim Crow segregation.

The folks in Colorado County have engrossing stories to tell. They recall grinding poverty and rollicking fun in the Great Depression, losing crops and livestock to floods, working for the WPA, romances gone wrong and love gone right, dirty dancing, church and faith, sharecropping, quilting, raising children, racism and bigotry, and even the horrific lynching of two African American teenagers in 1935. The Colorado County residents'' stories reveal an amazing resiliency and generosity of spirit, despite the hardships that have filled most of their lives. They also capture a rural way of life that was once common across the South, but is now gone forever.

Vis mere
Tjek vores konkurrenters priser
Normalpris
kr 335
Fragt: 39 kr
6 - 8 hverdage
20 kr
Pakkegebyr
God 4 anmeldelser på
Tjek vores konkurrenters priser

First settled by Stephen F. Austin''s colonists in the early nineteenth century, Colorado County has deep roots in Texas history. Mainly rural and agrarian until late in the twentieth century, Colorado County was a cotton-growing region whose population was about evenly divided between blacks and whites. These life-long neighbors led separate and unequal lives, memories of which still linger today. To preserve those memories, Patsy Cravens began interviewing and photographing the older residents of Colorado County in the 1980s. In this book, she presents photographs and recollections of the last generation, black and white, who grew up in the era of Jim Crow segregation.

The folks in Colorado County have engrossing stories to tell. They recall grinding poverty and rollicking fun in the Great Depression, losing crops and livestock to floods, working for the WPA, romances gone wrong and love gone right, dirty dancing, church and faith, sharecropping, quilting, raising children, racism and bigotry, and even the horrific lynching of two African American teenagers in 1935. The Colorado County residents'' stories reveal an amazing resiliency and generosity of spirit, despite the hardships that have filled most of their lives. They also capture a rural way of life that was once common across the South, but is now gone forever.

Vis mere
Se mere i:
Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 327
ISBN-13: 9780292713055
Indbinding: Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 0292713053
Kategori: Texas
Udg. Dato: 1 jul 2006
Længde: 30mm
Bredde: 178mm
Højde: 251mm
Forlag: University of Texas Press
Oplagsdato: 1 jul 2006
Forfatter(e): Patsy Cravens
Forfatter(e) Patsy Cravens

Kategori Texas

ISBN-13 9780292713055

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 327

Udgave

Længde 30mm

Bredde 178mm

Højde 251mm

Udg. Dato 1 jul 2006

Oplagsdato 1 jul 2006

Forlag University of Texas Press