Yuletide in Dixie - Slavery, Christmas, and Southern Memory

A major reinterpretation of human bondage, Yuletide in Dixie challenges disturbing myths embedded deeply in our culture.

About the author

Robert E. May is Professor Emeritus of History at Purdue University and the author of Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics: Lincoln, Douglas, and the Future of Latin America and other works about slavery and the South.

Summary

How did enslaved African Americans in the Old South really experience Christmas? 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 the holiday.

Product details

• Authors: Robert E May, Robert E. May
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9780813942148
• ISBN: 978-0-8139-4214-8
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries