Author: James C. KellyPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780963283634
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Explores forty-four southern artists and eighty of their works.
The South on Paper
Author: James C. KellyPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780963283634
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Explores forty-four southern artists and eighty of their works.
Watermarks in Paper from the South-West of France, 1560-1860
Author: Theo LaurentiusPublisher:
ISBN: 9789004340411
Category : Watermarks
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In Watermarks in Paper from the South-West of France, 1560-1860 over 200 locally found watermarks are catalogued and described.
Paper Sons and Daughters
Author: Ufrieda HoPublisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821444441
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Ufrieda Ho’s compelling memoir describes with intimate detail what it was like to come of age in the marginalized Chinese community of Johannesburg during the apartheid era of the 1970s and 1980s. The Chinese were mostly ignored, as Ho describes it, relegated to certain neighborhoods and certain jobs, living in a kind of gray zone between the blacks and the whites. As long as they adhered to these rules, they were left alone. Ho describes the separate journeys her parents took before they knew one another, each leaving China and Hong Kong around the early 1960s, arriving in South Africa as illegal immigrants. Her father eventually became a so-called “fahfee man,” running a small-time numbers game in the black townships, one of the few opportunities available to him at that time. In loving detail, Ho describes her father’s work habits: the often mysterious selection of numbers at the kitchen table, the carefully-kept account ledgers, and especially the daily drives into the townships, where he conducted business on street corners from the seat of his car. Sometimes Ufrieda accompanied him on these township visits, offering her an illuminating perspective into a stratified society. Poignantly, it was on such a visit that her father—who is very much a central figure in Ho’s memoir—met with a tragic end. In many ways, life for the Chinese in South Africa was self-contained. Working hard, minding the rules, and avoiding confrontations, they were able to follow traditional Chinese ways. But for Ufrieda, who was born in South Africa, influences from the surrounding culture crept into her life, as did a political awakening. Paper Sons and Daughters is a wonderfully told family history that will resonate with anyone having an interest in the experiences of Chinese immigrants, or perhaps any immigrants, the world over.
Writing the South Seas
Author: Brian C. BernardsPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 029580615X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Postcolonial literature about the South Seas, or Nanyang, examines the history of Chinese migration, localization, and interethnic exchange in Southeast Asia, where Sinophone settler cultures evolved independently by adapting to their "New World" and mingling with native cultures. Writing the South Seas explains why Nanyang encounters, neglected by most literary histories, should be considered crucial to the national literatures of China and Southeast Asia.
Geyer's Stationer
Author: Collected Papers
Author: John Diederich HasemanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
The Slain Wood
Author: William BoydPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421413310
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
The paper industry rejuvenated the American South—but took a heavy toll on its land and people. When the paper industry moved into the South in the 1930s, it confronted a region in the midst of an economic and environmental crisis. Entrenched poverty, stunted labor markets, vast stretches of cutover lands, and severe soil erosion prevailed across the southern states. By the middle of the twentieth century, however, pine trees had become the region’s number one cash crop, and the South dominated national and international production of pulp and paper based on the intensive cultivation of timber. In The Slain Wood, William Boyd chronicles the dramatic growth of the pulp and paper industry in the American South during the twentieth century and the social and environmental changes that accompanied it. Drawing on extensive interviews and historical research, he tells the fascinating story of one of the region’s most important but understudied industries. The Slain Wood reveals how a thoroughly industrialized forest was created out of a degraded landscape, uncovers the ways in which firms tapped into informal labor markets and existing inequalities of race and class to fashion a system for delivering wood to the mills, investigates the challenges of managing large papermaking complexes, and details the ways in which mill managers and unions discriminated against black workers. It also shows how the industry’s massive pollution loads significantly disrupted local environments and communities, leading to a long struggle to regulate and control that pollution.
The Southern Reporter
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 2122
Book Description
The Outlook
Author: Lyman AbbottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
Book Description
Author: