Turning south again

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Summary:Offers an account of the struggle for black modernism in the United States. This book combines historical considerations with psychoanalysis, personal memoir, and whiteness studies to argue that the American South and its regulating institutions - particularly that of incarceration - are at the centre of the African-American experience.

subjects: Race relations,  Intellectual life,  Civil rights,  Political and social views,  Modernism (Literature),  Social conditions,  History,  African Americans,  Tuskegee Institute,  Gefa˜ngnis,  Menschenrecht,  Conditions sociales,  Modernismus,  Geschichte,  Droits,  Schwarze,  Noirs americains,  Pensee politique et sociale,  Vie intellectuelle,  Histoire,  Criticism and interpretation,  Su˜dstaaten,  Relations raciales,  Modernisme (Litterature),  Rassenfrage,  Critique et interpretation,  Noirs américains,  Critique et interprétation,  Modernisme (Littérature),  Südstaaten,  Gefängnis,  Pensée politique et sociale,  Washington, booker t., 1856-1915,  African americans, southern states,  African americans, civil rights,  African americans, social conditions,  African americans, intellectual life,  Southern states, race relations,  American literature, african american authors, history and criticism

People: Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)

Places: Southern States