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Yuletide in Dixie: Slavery, Christmas, and Southern Memory
Robert E. May
Yuletide in Dixie: Slavery, Christmas, and Southern Memory
Robert E. May
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.
352 pages, 9 black & white illustrations
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | July 30, 2020 |
ISBN13 | 9780813945101 |
Publishers | University of Virginia Press |
Pages | 352 |
Dimensions | 572 g |
Language | English |