I CAME OUT OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY by John Andrew Rice, William Craig Rice (Foreword), Mark Bauerlein ( 9781611174366 )

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Title:

I CAME OUT OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

By:

John Andrew Rice, William Craig Rice (Foreword), Mark Bauerlein

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

1611174368

ISBN 13:

9781611174366

Publisher:

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS

Pub. date:

15 August, 2014

Series:

Southern Classics

Pages:

384

Description:

Back in print, a rich first-person account of race and class in the Jim Crow South

Synopsis:

John Andrew Rice's autobiography, first published to critical acclaim in 1942, is a remarkable tour through late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America. When the book was suppressed by the publisher soon after its appearance because of legal threats by a college president described in the book, the nation lost a rich first-person historical account of race and class relations during a critical period--not only during the days of Rice's youth, but at the dawn of the civil rights movement. I Came Out of the Eighteenth Century begins with Rice's childhood on a South Carolina plantation during the post-Reconstruction era. Later Rice moved to Great Britain when he won a Rhodes scholarship, then to the University of Nebraska to accept a professorship. In 1933 he founded Black Mountain College, a legendary progressive college in North Carolina that uniquely combined creative arts, liberal education, self-government, and a work program. Rice's observations of social and working conditions in the Jim Crow South, his chronicle of his own fading southern aristocratic family, including its famous politicians, and his acerbic portraits of education bureaucrats are memorable and make this book a resource for scholars and a pleasure for lay readers. Historical facts are leavened with wit and insight; black-white relations are recounted with relentless and unsentimental discernment. Rice combines a sociologist's eye with a dramatist's flair in a unique voice. This Southern Classics edition includes a new introduction by Mark Bauerlein and an afterword by Rice's grandson William Craig Rice, exposing a new generation of readers to John Andrew Rice's incisive commentaries on the American South before the 1960s and to the work of a powerful prose stylist.

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University of South Carolina Press

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