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Up South in the Ozarks - Dispatches from the Margins (Hardcover)
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Up South in the Ozarks - Dispatches from the Margins (Hardcover)
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The Ozarks is a place that defies easy categorization. Sprawling
across much of Missouri and Arkansas and smaller parts of Oklahoma
and Kansas, it is caught on the margins of America's larger
cultural regions: part southern, part midwestern, and maybe even a
little bit western. For generations Ozarkers have been more likely
than most other Americans to live near or below the poverty line-a
situation that has often subjected them to unflattering
stereotypes. In short, the Ozarks has been a marginal place
populated by marginalized people. Historian Brooks Blevins has
spent his life studying and writing about the people of his native
regions-the South and the Ozarks. He has been in the vanguard of a
new and vibrant Ozarks Studies movement that has worked to refract
the stories of Ozarkers through a more realistic and less exotic
lens. In Up South in the Ozarks: Dispatches from the Margins,
Blevins introduces us with humor and fairness to mostly unseen
lives of the past and present: southern gospel singing schools and
ballad collectors, migratory cotton pickers and backroad country
storekeepers, fireworks peddlers and impoverished diarists. Part
historical and part journalistic, Blevins's essays combine the
scholarly sensibilities of a respected historian with the insights
of someone raised in rural hill country. His stories of
marginalized characters often defy stereotype. They entertain as
much as they educate. And most of them originate in the same place
Blevins does: up south in the Ozarks.
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