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This interdisciplinary collection charts the experiences of young
people in places of spatial marginality around the world,
dismantling the privileging of urban youth, urban locations and
urban ways of life in youth studies and beyond. Expert authors
investigate different dimensions of spatiality including
citizenship, materiality and belonging, and develop new
understandings of the complex relationships between place, history,
politics and education. From Australia to India, Myanmar to Sweden,
and the UK to Central America, international examples from both the
Global South and North help to illuminate wider issues of
intergenerational change, social mobility and identity. By
exploring young lives beyond the city, this book establishes
different ways of thinking from a position of spatial marginality.
This volume offers an alternative vision for education and has been
written for those who are passionate about teaching and learning,
in schools, universities and in the community, and providing people
with the values, knowledge and skills needed to face complex social
and environmental challenges. Working across boundaries the
socio-ecological educator is a visionary who strives to build
community connections and strengthen relationships with the natural
world. The ideas and real-world case studies presented in this book
will bring that vision a step closer to reality.
This volume offers an alternative vision for education and has been
written for those who are passionate about teaching and learning,
in schools, universities and in the community, and providing people
with the values, knowledge and skills needed to face complex social
and environmental challenges. Working across boundaries the
socio-ecological educator is a visionary who strives to build
community connections and strengthen relationships with the natural
world. The ideas and real-world case studies presented in this book
will bring that vision a step closer to reality. "
What remained of the badly decomposed body of twelveA -yearA -old
Tina Marie Andrews was discovered underneath a discarded sofa in
the woods outside of McComb, Mississippi, on August 23, 1969. Ten
days earlier, Andrews and a friend had accepted a ride home after
leaving the Tiger's Den, a local teenage hangout, but they were
driven instead to the remote area where Andrews was eventually
murdered. Although eyewitness testimony pointed to two local police
officers, no one was ever convicted of this brutal crime, and to
this day the case remains officially unsolved. Contemporary local
newspaper coverage notwithstanding, the story of Andrews's murder
has not been told. Indeed, many people in the McComb community
still, more than fifty years later, hesitate to speak of the
tragedy. Trent Brown's Murder in McComb is the first comprehensive
examination of this case, the lengthy investigation into it, and
the two extended trials that followed. Brown also explores the
public shaming of the state's main witness, a fifteen-year-old
unwed mother, and the subsequent desecration of Andrews's grave.
Set against the uneasy backdrop of the civil rights movement,
Brown's study deftly reconstructs various accounts of the murder,
explains why the juries reached the verdicts they did, and explores
the broader forces that shaped the community in which Andrews lived
and died. Unlike so many other accounts of violence in the Jim Crow
South, racial animus was not the driving force behind Andrews's
murder; in fact, most of the individuals central to the case, from
the sheriff to the judges to the victim, were white. Yet Andrews,
as well as her friend Billie Jo Lambert, the state's key witness,
were ""girls of ill repute,"" as one defense attorney put it. To
many people in McComb, Tina and Billie Jo were ""trashy"" children
whose circumstances reflected their families' low socioeconomic
standing. In the end, Brown suggests that Tina Andrews had the
great misfortune to be murdered in a town where the locals were
overly eager to support law, order, and stability- instead of true
justice- amid the tense and uncertain times during and after the
civil rights movement.
In the American imagination, the South is a place both sexually
open and closed, outwardly chaste and inwardly sultry. Sex and
Sexuality in Modern Southern Culture demonstrates that there is no
central theme that encompasses sex in the U.S. South, but rather a
rich variety of manifestations and embodiments influenced by race,
gender, history, and social and political forces. The twelve essays
in this volume shine a particularly bright light on the
significance of race in shaping the history of southern sexuality,
primarily in the period since World War II. Francesca Gamber
discusses the politics of interracial sex during the national civil
rights movement, while Katherine Henninger and Riché Richardson
each consider the intersections of race and sexuality in the
blaxploitation film Mandingo and the comedy of Steve Harvey,
respectively. Political and religious regulation of sexual behavior
also receives attention in Claire Strom's essay on venereal disease
treatment in wartime Florida, Stephanie M. Chalifoux's examination
of prostitution networks in Alabama, Krystal Humphreys's piece on
purity culture in modern Christianity, and Whitney Strub's essay
delving into the sexual politics of the Memphis Deep Throat trials.
Specific places in the South figure prominently in Jerry Watkins's
essay on queer sex in the Redneck Riviera of northern Florida,
Richard Hourigan's exploration of bachelor parties in Myrtle Beach,
and Matt Miller's piece on African American spring break
celebrations in Atlanta. Finally, Abigail Parsons and Trent Brown
investigate southern portrayals of gender and sexuality in the
fiction of Fannie Flagg and Larry Brown. Above all, Sex and
Sexuality in Modern Southern Culture demonstrates that sex has been
a fluid and resilient force operating across multiple discourses
and practices in the contemporary South, and remains a vital
component in the perception of a culturally complex region.
On Saturday, September 5, 1964, the family of Albert W. ""Red""
Heffner Jr., a successful insurance agent, left their house at 202
Shannon Drive in McComb, Mississippi, where they had lived for ten
years. They never returned. In the eyes of neighbors, their
unforgiveable sin was to have spoken on several occasions with
civil rights workers and to have invited two into their home.
Consequently, the Heffners were subjected to a campaign of
harassment, ostracism, and economic retaliation shocking to a white
family who believed that they were respected community members. So
the Heffners Left McComb, originally published in 1965 and
reprinted now for the first time, is Greenville journalist Hodding
Carter's account of the events that led to the Heffners' downfall.
Historian Trent Brown, a McComb native, supplies a substantial
introduction evaluating the book's significance. The Heffners'
story demonstrates the forces of fear, conformity, communal
pressure, and threats of retaliation that silenced so many white
Mississippians during the 1950s and 1960s. Carter's book provides a
valuable portrait of a family who was not choosing to make a stand,
but merely extending humane hospitality. Yet the Heffners were
systematically punished and driven into exile for what was
perceived as treason against white apartheid.
In 1951, a young Black woman, working as an overnight caretaker at
a county-line beer joint in southwestern Mississippi, shot and
killed a white intruder who was likely intending to assault her.
Hattie Lee Barnes's killing of Lamar Craft threw the courts into a
whirlwind of conflicting stories and murder attempts, illuminating
the capriciousness of Mississippi justice, in which race, personal
connections, and community expectations mattered a great deal. In
Roadhouse Justice, Trent Brown examines the long-forgotten
circumstances surrounding this case, revealing not only the details
of Craft's death and the lengthy court proceedings that followed,
but also the precarious nature of Black lives under the 1950s
southern justice system. Told here in full for the first time, the
story of Barnes's tribulations and ultimate victory demonstrates
her intense determination and refusal to buckle under the enormous
pressures she faced.
On Saturday, September 5, 1964, the family of Albert W. ""Red""
Heffner Jr., a successful insurance agent, left their house at 202
Shannon Drive in McComb, Mississippi, where they had lived for ten
years. They never returned. In the eyes of neighbors, their
unforgiveable sin was to have spoken on several occasions with
civil rights workers and to have invited two into their home.
Consequently, the Heffners were subjected to a campaign of
harassment, ostracism, and economic retaliation shocking to a white
family who believed that they were respected community members. So
the Heffners Left McComb, originally published in 1965 and
reprinted now for the first time, is Greenville journalist Hodding
Carter's account of the events that led to the Heffners' downfall.
Historian Trent Brown, a McComb native, supplies a substantial
introduction evaluating the book's significance. The Heffners'
story demonstrates the forces of fear, conformity, communal
pressure, and threats of retaliation that silenced so many white
Mississippians during the 1950s and 1960s. Carter's book provides a
valuable portrait of a family who was not choosing to make a stand,
but merely extending humane hospitality. Yet the Heffners were
systematically punished and driven into exile for what was
perceived as treason against white apartheid.
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