A Golden Haze of Memory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Golden Haze of Memory write by Stephanie E. Yuhl. This book was released on 2006-03-08. A Golden Haze of Memory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Charleston, South Carolina, today enjoys a reputation as a destination city for cultural and heritage tourism. In A Golden Haze of Memory, Stephanie E. Yuhl looks back to the crucial period between 1920 and 1940, when local leaders developed Charleston's trademark image as "America's Most Historic City." Eager to assert the national value of their regional cultural traditions and to situate Charleston as a bulwark against the chaos of modern America, these descendants of old-line families downplayed Confederate associations and emphasized the city's colonial and early national prominence. They created a vibrant network of individual artists, literary figures, and organizations--such as the all-white Society for the Preservation of Negro Spirituals--that nurtured architectural preservation, art, literature, and tourism while appropriating African American folk culture. In the process, they translated their selective and idiosyncratic personal, familial, and class memories into a collective identity for the city. The Charleston this group built, Yuhl argues, presented a sanitized yet highly marketable version of the American past. Their efforts invited attention and praise from outsiders while protecting social hierarchies and preserving the political and economic power of whites. Through the example of this colorful southern city, Yuhl posits a larger critique about the use of heritage and demonstrates how something as intangible as the recalled past can be transformed into real political, economic, and social power.
Golden Haze
Golden Haze - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Golden Haze write by M. M. W. Barker. This book was released on 1981. Golden Haze available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
California
California - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook California write by Carey McWilliams. This book was released on 1999-04-02. California available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This edition is graced by a new foreword by Lewis Lapham.
Bright Golden Haze
Bright Golden Haze - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bright Golden Haze write by Caroline E. Comerford. This book was released on 2012. Bright Golden Haze available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Charleston
Charleston - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Charleston write by Susan Crawford. This book was released on 2023-04-04. Charleston available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An unflinching look at a beautiful, endangered, tourist-pummeled, and history-filled American city. At least thirteen million Americans will have to move away from American coasts in the coming decades, as rising sea levels and increasingly severe storms put lives at risk and cause billions of dollars in damages. In Charleston, South Carolina, denial, boosterism, widespread development, and public complacency about racial issues compound; the city, like our country, has no plan to protect its most vulnerable. In these pages, Susan Crawford tells the story of a city that has played a central role in America's painful racial history for centuries and now, as the waters rise, stands at the intersection of climate and race. Unbeknownst to the seven million mostly white tourists who visit the charming streets of the lower peninsula each year, the Holy City is in a deeply precarious position. Weaving science, narrative history, and the family stories of Black Charlestonians, Charleston chronicles the tumultuous recent past in the life of the city—from protests to hurricanes—while revealing the escalating risk in its future. A bellwether for other towns and cities, Charleston is emblematic of vast portions of the American coast, with a future of inundation juxtaposed against little planning to ensure a thriving future for all residents. In Charleston, we meet Rev. Joseph Darby, a well-regarded Black minister with a powerful voice across the city and region who has an acute sense of the city's shortcomings when it comes to matters of race and water. We also hear from Michelle Mapp, one of the city's most promising Black leaders, and Quinetha Frasier, a charismatic young Black entrepreneur with Gullah-Geechee roots who fears her people’s displacement. And there is Jacob Lindsey, a young white city planner charged with running the city’s ten-year “comprehensive plan” efforts who ends up working for a private developer. These and others give voice to the extraordinary risks the city is facing. The city of Charleston, with its explosive gentrification over the last thirty years, crystallizes a human tendency to value development above all else. At the same time, Charleston stands for our need to change our ways—and the need to build higher, drier, more densely-connected places where all citizens can live safely. Illuminating and vividly rendered, Charleston is a clarion call and filled with characters who will stay in the reader’s mind long after the final page.
