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Visions of the Black Belt: A Cultural Survey of the Heart of Alabama
McDonald, Robin, Burnes Ph.D., Dr. Valerie Pope
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Hardcover. "Visions of the Black Belt" offers a rich cultural overview of the emblematic core of Alabama known for its prairie soils, plantation manors, civil rights history, gothic churches, traditional foodways, and resilient and gracious people. Num Pages: 264 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; AGN; AJC; AM; HBJK; TNKX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 279 x 30. Weight in Grams: 825.
In Visions of the Black Belts, Robin McDonald and Valerie Pope Burne offer a richly illustrated tour of the Black Belt, the fertile arc that represents the cultural efflorescence of Alabama’s heartland. Like knowledgeable friends, McDonald and Burnes guide readers through the Black Belt’s towns and architecture and introduce the region’s great panoply of citizens, farmers, craftspeople, cooks, writers, and musicians.
A constellation of Black Belt towns arose during Alabama’s territorial decades, communities like Selma, Camden, Eutaw, Tuskegee, Greenville, and many more. Visions of the Black Belts recounts their stories and others, such as Demopolis’s founding by exiles from ... Read more
In Visions of the Black Belts, Robin McDonald and Valerie Pope Burne offer a richly illustrated tour of the Black Belt, the fertile arc that represents the cultural efflorescence of Alabama’s heartland. Like knowledgeable friends, McDonald and Burnes guide readers through the Black Belt’s towns and architecture and introduce the region’s great panoply of citizens, farmers, craftspeople, cooks, writers, and musicians.
A constellation of Black Belt towns arose during Alabama’s territorial decades, communities like Selma, Camden, Eutaw, Tuskegee, Greenville, and many more. Visions of the Black Belts recounts their stories and others, such as Demopolis’s founding by exiles from ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Alabama Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Alabama, United States
ISBN
9780817318796
SKU
V9780817318796
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Ref
99-15
About McDonald, Robin, Burnes Ph.D., Dr. Valerie Pope
Writer and photographer Robin McDonald is the author of Heart of a Small Town: Photographs of Alabama Towns. Valerie Pope Burnes is an assistant professor of history and former director of the Center for the Study of the Black Belt at the University of West Alabama, USA.
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