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Stars fell on Alabama /Carl Carmer ; introduction by Howell Raines ; illustrated by Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, (c)2000.Edition: New editionDescription: 1 online resource (xxiv, 294 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780817389987
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • F326 .S737 2000
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Howell Raines; Foreword; Author's Note; Part I. Tuscaloosa Nights; I. I Arrive; II. Tuscaloosa; III. Black Rituals; 1. Golf Course Cabin; 2. Shoutin' in Moonlight; IV. Flaming Cross; Part II. In the Red Hills; I. Ladies Bow, Gents Know How; II. All-day Singing; III. Footwashing; IV. Sweet William Came from the Western States; V. Court Week; VI. Birmingham; Part III. Black Belt; I. Greene County Rally; II. Big House; 1. Thorn Hill; 2. Rosemount; 3. Gaineswood and Bluff Hall; III. Plaisant Pays de France; IV. Front Gallery
Subject: Stars Fell on Alabama is truly a classic. The book enjoyed enormous popularity and notoriety when it was first published (it was a selection of The Literary Guild and also sold widely in Europe). It can be described as a book of folkways-not journalism, or history, or a novel. At times it is impressionistic; at other times it conveys deep insights into the character of Alabama. Carmer visited every region of the state, always accompanied by someone intimately familiar with the locality. The mosaic that emerges from the pages of his book portrays Alabama's human landscape in all its variety, an.
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Originally published: New York : Farrar and Rinehart, 1934.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: The ""Strange Country"" -- Howell Raines; Foreword; Author's Note; Part I. Tuscaloosa Nights; I. I Arrive; II. Tuscaloosa; III. Black Rituals; 1. Golf Course Cabin; 2. Shoutin' in Moonlight; IV. Flaming Cross; Part II. In the Red Hills; I. Ladies Bow, Gents Know How; II. All-day Singing; III. Footwashing; IV. Sweet William Came from the Western States; V. Court Week; VI. Birmingham; Part III. Black Belt; I. Greene County Rally; II. Big House; 1. Thorn Hill; 2. Rosemount; 3. Gaineswood and Bluff Hall; III. Plaisant Pays de France; IV. Front Gallery

1. The Tale of the Gilded Mirror2. The Tale of the Wedding Ring; 3. The Tale of the White Dove; 4. The Tale of the Stud Nigger; V. The Tombigbee Outlaws; 1. Railroad Bill; 2. The Outlaw Sheriff of Sumter County; 3. Rube Burrow: Alabama Robin Hood; VI. God in the Canebrake; 1. Ben Delimus; 2. The Sims War; 3. The Prophetess of Eutaw; VII. White Man's Nigger: I; VIII. Miss Polly; IX. Brer Rabbit Multiplies; X. Lynching; Part IV. Conjure Country; I. Two-Toe Tom; II. A Good Man to Work For; III. Processional; IV. White Man's Nigger: II; V. Conjure Woman; VI. Reminiscence

Part V. Mobile and the Bayou CountryI. Mobile; II. Coq d'Inde; III. Dauphin Island; Part VI. Cajan; I. Citronelle; II. The Hell-Raisin'; III. Twilight of the Races; Afterword; From the Author's Notebook

Stars Fell on Alabama is truly a classic. The book enjoyed enormous popularity and notoriety when it was first published (it was a selection of The Literary Guild and also sold widely in Europe). It can be described as a book of folkways-not journalism, or history, or a novel. At times it is impressionistic; at other times it conveys deep insights into the character of Alabama. Carmer visited every region of the state, always accompanied by someone intimately familiar with the locality. The mosaic that emerges from the pages of his book portrays Alabama's human landscape in all its variety, an.

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