Yuletide in Dixie Slavery, Christmas, and Southern Memory |
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| Author:
| May, Robert E. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8139-4510-1 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2020 |
| Publisher: | University of Virginia Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $27.95 |
Book Description:
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In this provocative, revisionist, and sometimes chilling account, Robert E. May chides the conventional wisdom for simplifying black perspectives, uncritically accepting southern white literary tropes about Christmas, and overlooking evidence that slavery's most punitive features persisted at holiday time.
In this provocative, revisionist, and sometimes chilling account, Robert E. May chides the conventional wisdom for simplifying black perspectives, uncritically accepting southern white literary tropes about Christmas, and overlooking evidence that slavery's most punitive features persisted at holiday time.