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Dixie: A Personal Odyssey Through Events That Shaped the Modern South, by Curtis Wilkie
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From Publishers Weekly
In this social chronicle of the American South's past 40 years, Wilkie (coauthor, Arkansas Mischief), a native Mississippian who exiled himself, proves that, indeed, you can't take the South out of the boy. Drawing on his own memories and dozens of books and magazine articles, Wilkie retells the big stories he covered as a journalist, most notably for the Boston Globe: Ole Miss's forced acceptance of its first black student in 1962; "Freedom Summer" of 1964, "the most terrible year of violence since the Civil War"; Nixon's Southern Strategy to wrestle the Southern vote from the Democrats; the election of Jimmy Carter; the conviction of Medgar Evers's murderer in 1994, 31 years after the crime. But at the core of this book is Wilkie's own development in the face of enormous changes. Raised as someone "who observed segregationist customs, but disapproved of blatant bigotry," Wilkie becomes appalled by the South's racism. In 1969, he flees Mississippi for the cultivated Northeast he'd read about in Cheever and Updike novels, planning never to return. Of course, he discovers New England has its own problems, like the controversial student busing program in 1975 Boston. After 25 years, Wilkie moves southward again and finds it, like himself, changed yet unchanged. "My generation experienced more disruption in our social order than any other.... Yet we maintained our own culture, our accent, our cuisine, our music as if should we give them up we would finally admit defeat." Wilkie's candid analyses and self-examination lift this book above a mere rehashing of the times. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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From Booklist
Wilkie, a noted journalist, grew up in Mississippi and launched his career there. His book is a series of essays "based primarily on memory . . . freshened and reinforced" by recent and extensive background reading. In recalling the Mississippi of his childhood, youth, and young manhood, he in essence takes his readers on a political and sociological tour of the South during the region's cataclysmic sea change, for he grew up during the years when black resistance to Jim Crow laws was gathering momentum. He attended Old Miss during that institution's worst days of attempting to preserve its segregationist policies, and as a cub reporter for a Mississippi newspaper, he witnessed civil rights violence firsthand. Getting his fill of his home state's foot-dragging, he left the South for more than two decades, working for the Boston Globe. But he always felt like a misfit in the North, and his southern consciousness eventually drew him back to Dixie. His book is a very effective observance of the lay of a land swept by irreversible forces. Brad HooperCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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Product details
Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Scribner; First Edition edition (September 25, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0684872854
ISBN-13: 978-0684872858
Product Dimensions:
6.6 x 1.1 x 9.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.7 out of 5 stars
9 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#363,238 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Though Curtis Wilkie is 25 years older than me, I found many of his thoughts about Mississippi and the South to mirror my own. He loves his home yet he hated the racism, violence, and backwardness and fled for 25 years. But, eventually he came home. This is a very touching memoir of a reporter who grew up in the trying times of the 1950s and 60s, and worked as a chronicler of the South and American politics for over 4 decades. Sixteen years after the publishing this book, Wilkie is still writing. I highly recommend this book.
I am a native New Yorker who lives in Oxford, MS. The South is such a complicated place easy to condemn for it's reactionary intransigence. Unfortunately, the typical Northern appraisal of the South is an unfair over simplification. Wilkie writes lovingly and insightfully of the South he deservedly loves and criticizes. Wilkie joins a long line of great Mississippi authors who continue to be both repelled by and magnetically held by their state. It is impossible to understand America without understanding the South and this book is an eloquent effort in a continuing dialogue.
My husband is the same age as Curtis Wilkie and I am only a few years younger. We grew up just south of the author in southern Louisiana and southern Mississippi from the 40's to the 60's. We both thought the book extremely well written and insightful. We have given it as a gift and recommended it to others as a must-read.Mississippi is slowly joining the 21st century and has much to offer now that the white paternalism and good old boy networks are shrinking and there are the beginnings of a black middle class. We can all hope that the south will rise again - with equality for all.
As someone who recently relocated to the Deep South I thoroughly enjoyed Curtis Wilkies tales, including civil rights struggles and the political strategies used to get the Southern vote. Both historically educational and entertaining, I highly recommend this book.
I could not put this book down. This combination autobiography/social and political history seamlessly weaves personal anecdotes, biographical narratives, and historical commentary. Wilkie's strengths lie both in his compelling journalistic prose and his intimate knowledge of many of the events he discusses. His firsthand accounts of already famous (and some not-so-famous) events add rich color to our collective knowledge of the region and era.
Mr. Wilkie knows his history and has created a thorough and interesting read. He includes many facts and perspectives on Southern history.
Fabulous book
Curtis Wilkie is a Mississippian who paints a broad picture of the Civil Rights movement from the inside out. He cataloges his growth from childhood to young adult as a jounalist in waiting, one with a sympathetic ear for the plight of the descendants of slaves in central Miss. His descriptions of his upbringing in a town divided by race are quite good. And his stories of Ole miss football games and the atmosphere surrounding them are excellent as they foreshadow the struggle of the civil rights community in what Stevie Wonder referred to as "hard times Mississippi." It's a well told story.As a young adult he escapes to Manhattan and literally and figuratively joins the literatti at Elaine's, that popular Manhattan nightspot frequented by those the likes of Willie Morris. His soft hearted leanings help him fit right in as a typical evenings dicourse is often filled with lamentations with regard to those unenlightened ones, those knuckle dragging country folk left behind. The book is an ongoing narrative of Wilkies life from his work within the movement in his home town, his migration to NYC, his marriage there, and his subsequent return to Mississippi as an older man.It was a time of great change in the South and Wilkie captures it as well as anyone I've read. Let's just say that it's certainly different there today. A good companion read would be "Rising Tide" by John Barry. It's about the great Mississippi river flood of 1927, a disastor that not only changed the landscape of the south, but also that of America. It's a great lead-up to Wilkie's story which bridges the link between the old south and its new beginnings. One cannot read these books without feeling the tribulations of the misbegotten and dispossesed; it's a tonic for softening the hardest of hearts.
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