Dixie: A Personal Odyssey Through Events that Shaped the Modern South (Record no. 220372)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0684872854
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Transcribing agency AL
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Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Edition number 23
Classification number 975.043
Item number WILD
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Personal name Curtis Wilkie
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Title Dixie: A Personal Odyssey Through Events that Shaped the Modern South
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Scribner
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2001
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Extent 336 p.
Other physical details PB
Dimensions 20x13 cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount $26.00
Currency code $
Unit of pricing $26.00
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. "Dixie is a political and social history of the South during the second half of the twentieth century told from Curtis Wilkie's perspective as a white man intimately transformed by enormous racial and political upheavals. Wilkie's personal take on some of the landmark events of modern American history is as engaging as it is insightful. He attended Ole Miss during the rioting in the fall of 1962, when James Meredith became the first African American to enroll in the school. After graduation, Wilkie worked in Clarksdale, Mississippi, where he met Aaron Henry, a local druggist and later the prominent head of the Mississippi NAACP. He covered the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964 and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party challenge at the national convention in Atlantic City, and he was a member of the biracial insurgent Democratic delegation from Mississippi seated in place of Governor John Bell Williams's delegation at the 1968 convention in Chicago. Wilkie followed Jimmy Carter's campaign for the presidency, becoming friends with Billy Carter; he covered Bill Clinton's election in 1992 and was witness to the South's startling shift from the Democratic Party to the GOP; and finally, he was there when Byron De La Beckwith was convicted for the murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers thirty-one years after the fact. Wilkie had left the South in 1969 in the wake of the violence surrounding the civil rights movement, vowing never to live there again. But after traveling the world as a reporter, he did return in 1993, drawn by a deep-rooted affinity to the region of his youth. It was as though he rejoined his tribe, a peculiar civilization bonded by accent and mannerisms andburdened by racial anxiety. As Wilkie writes, Southerners have staunchly resisted assimilation since the Civil War, taking an almost perverse pride in their role as "spiritual citizens of a nation that existed for only four years in another century." Wilkie endeavors to make sense of the enormous changes that have typified the South for more than four decades. Full of beauty, humor, and pathos, "Dixie is a story of redemption -- for both a region and a writer.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Southern States
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Race relations
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Biography
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Personal name WILKIE (Curtis)
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Source of classification or shelving scheme Dewey Decimal Classification
Koha item type George Fernandes Collections
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     History St Aloysius Library St Aloysius Library 03/23/2013   975.043 WILD GF03665 11/04/2021 11/04/2021 George Fernandes Collections