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  • How We Talked and Common Folks

    by Verna Mae Slone ...
    In these two classic memoirs, the beloved Appalachian author shares a rare and vibrant look at the life and culture of her rural Kentucky home.A free-form combination of glossary and memoir, How We Talked is a timeless piece of literature that uses native expressions to depict everyday life in Caney Creek, Kentucky. In addition to phrases and their meanings, the book contains sections on the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Confederados

    Old South Immigrants in Brazil

    by Cecil Ataide Melo, Elizabeth Weisbrod, Eugene C. Harter, James M. Gravois, Laura Jarnagin, William C. Griggs, John Charles Dawson, Michael B. Montgomery, Dr. Wayne Flynt ...
    The story of exiles from the Confederate South who fled to Brazil after the US Civil War. The collection includes a previously unpublished narrative by an original settlerIn the wake of the American Civil War, thousands of disillusioned Southerners sought refuge far from Reconstruction’s reach—many found it in Brazil. The Confederados is a compelling exploration of this little-known migration, ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Speaking of Alabama

    The History, Diversity, Function, and Change of Language

    by Thomas E. Nunnally, Rachael Allbritten, Guy H. Bailey, Charlotte Brammer, Catherine Evans Davies, Jocelyn Doxsey, Crawford Feagin, James Daniel Hasty, Kimberly Johnson0, Michael D. Picone1, Robin Sabino2, Anna Head Spence3, Dr. Michael B. Montgomery4 ...
    Informative and entertaining essays on the accents, dialects, and speech patterns particular to AlabamaThomas E. Nunnally’s fascinating volume presents essays by linguists who examine with affection and curiosity the speech varieties occurring both past and present across Alabama. Taken together, the accounts in this volume offer an engaging view of the major features that characterize Alabama’s ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

    Volume 5: Language

    by Charles Reagan Wilson ...
    Series Book 5 - The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
    The fifth volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture explores language and dialect in the South, including English and its numerous regional variants, Native American languages, and other non-English languages spoken over time by the region’s immigrant communities.Among the more than sixty entries are eleven on indigenous languages and major essays on French, Spanish, and German. Each of ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Black on Both Sides

    A Racial History of Trans Identity

    by C. Riley Snorton ...
    Winner of the John Boswell Prize from the American Historical Association 2018Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association 2018Winner of an American Library Association Stonewall Honor 2018Winner of Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction 2018Winner of the Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for Lesbian and Gay StudiesThe ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Little Heathens

    Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression

    by Mildred Armstrong Kalish ...
    I tell of a time, a place, and a way of life long gone. For many years I have had the urge to describe that treasure trove, lest it vanish forever. So, partly in response to the basic human instinct to share feelings and experiences, and partly for the sheer joy and excitement of it all, I report on my early life. It was quite a romp.So begins Mildred Kalish’s story of growing up on her ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • Spoken Soul

    The Story of Black English

    by John Russell Rickford, Russell John Rickford ...
    In Praise of Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English"Spoken Soul brilliantly fills a huge gap. . . . a delightfully readable introduction to the elegant interweave between the language and its culture."–Ralph W. Fasold, Georgetown university"A lively, well-documented history of Black English . . . that will enlighten and inform not only educators, for whom it should be required reading, but all ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dialect Diversity in America

    The Politics of Language Change

    by William Labov ...
    Series series Page-Barbour Lectures
    The sociolinguist William Labov has worked for decades on change in progress in American dialects and on African American Vernacular English (AAVE). In Dialect Diversity in America, Labov examines the diversity among American dialects and presents the counterintuitive finding that geographically localized dialects of North American English are increasingly diverging from one another over time ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Household Crafts and Tips

    The Foxfire Americana Library (12)

    by Foxfire Fund, Inc. ...
    Series series The Foxfire Americana Library
    A collection of how-tos celebrating the domestic arts of Appalachia—featuring traditional advice on soapmaking and quilting, as well as in-depth instructions for making baskets, hampers, and cornhusk brooms.Foxfire has brought the philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers, teaching creative self-sufficiency and preserving the stories, crafts, and customs of Appalachia. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader

    by Henry Louis Gates Jr ...
    Educator, writer, critic, intellectual, film-maker-Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has been widely praised as being one of America's most prominent and prolific scholars. In what will be an essential volume, The Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Reader collects three decades of writings from his many fields of interest and expertise.From his earliest work of literary-historical excavation in 1982, through his ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • America Eats!

    On the Road with the WPA - the Fish Fries, Box Supper Socials, and Chittlin' Feasts That Define Real American Food

    by Pat Willard ...
    Pat Willard takes readers on a journey into the regional nooks and crannies of American cuisine where WPA writers-including Eudora Welty, Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison, and Nelson Algren, among countless others-were dispatched in 1935 to document the roots of our diverse culinary cuisine. America Eats!, as the project was entitled, was never published. With the unpublished WPA manuscript as her guide ... Read more

    $11.29 USD

  • Trip of the Tongue

    Cross-Country Travels in Search of America's Languages

    by Elizabeth Little ...
    Though we speak English as a nation, it's no secret that America is far from uniform. Spanish, in particular, has long been touted as the language that will figure into our national future; much has been written about the need to recognize it in our laws and schools.Yet billing America as a bilingual country is a gross misrepresentation. They speak Basque in Nevada, Hindi in San Jose, and Gullah ... Read more

    $14.39 USD