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I was born and bred in the south(although thankfully, my parents were informed and required the same of us kids).So, the stories, often nauseating, are all too familiar. Braden's insight into the entrenchment of southern narrow-minded attitudes during the confluence of those times is profound! Maybe that's why the leavings now are so difficult to dispel. My favorite words are within the prologue, "Power of Place," a term also used by one of my favorite southern authors, Eudora Welty, although in a more endearing format but nonetheless enlightening. The title of the book is the epitome of an oxymoron.
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Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South
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I was born and bred in the south(although thankfully, my parents were informed and required the same of us kids).So, the stories, often nauseating, are all too familiar. Braden's insight into the entrenchment of southern narrow-minded attitudes during the confluence of those times is profound! Maybe that's why the leavings now are so difficult to dispel. My favorite words are within the prologue, "Power of Place," a term also used by one of my favorite southern authors, Eudora Welty, although in a more endearing format but nonetheless enlightening. The title of the book is the epitome of an oxymoron.