...Marlon B. Ross This essay explores the notion of the race icon, a prominent public image or figure that stands in for a racial group, as it is exploited as a tool both for racial debasement and for racial uplift. The essay traces the public imaging of the heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis...

...John Timberman Newcomb "Say It Ain t Snow, Joe : On the White Mythology of American Baseball John Timberman Newcomb Baseball players struck for two days in July last season; in September former all-stars testified to doing cocaine with other all-stars. These two episodes have once again brought...

...Al-Tony Gilmore Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 The Myth, Legend, and Folklore of Joe Louis: The Impression of Sport on Society Al-Tony Gilmore In recent years the study of sport and society has examined a variety of issues. Little work has been done, however...

...Richard L. Watson, Jr. Joe Tumulty and the Wilson Era . By Blum John M. . Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company , 1951 . Pp. xiv , 337 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 Book Reviews 601 in it . . . the military importance of the Mississippi River...

...Joe Cleary Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 joe Cleary Domestic Troubles: Tragedy and the Northern Ireland Conflict ^Xtmestic tragedy, conventionally associated with the sensibility ofthe emergent metropolitan middle classes, has never been held in very high esteem by Marxian...

...Joe Cleary Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Joe Cleary Fork-Tongued on the Border Bit : Partition and the Politics of Form in Contemporary Narratives of the Northern Irish Conflict Ina poem titled Whatever You Say Say Noth­ ing, Seamus Heaney has written about the obligatory...

...Joe Ashby Porter Working Papers: Selected Essays and Reviews by Hayden Carruth . Edited by Weissman Judith . University of Georgia Press , 1982 . Pp. xxiii , 239 . $19.95 . Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 330 The South Atlantic Quarterly life and which...

... small and cute. Deakie and the other boys caught them and used them to frighten the stupid girls, stuffing the frogs down the front of their blouses. Deakie Boy did what the other boys did, but he was not having fun. He was making plans and practicing his escape. That year he hooked up with Bubba Joe...

... of reversals. Turned upside down by the escaped convict, he changes a graveyard into a birthplace; the switch Mrs. Joe uses to whip him is improperly called Tickler; Mrs. Joe s tidy housekeeping routine produces a negative rather than a pleasing effect: Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had...

... simple opposition of the violent Joe and the placid Lena. After all, Byron brings to High­ tower the problems of Lena and Joe as well as his own. Joe s grand­ mother also comes to the old minister for assistance. Indeed, a good part of the action of the entire book seems designed to evoke the action...

... fanatical than the witch hangers of old Salem. Miss Robinson became entangled in the party line. She fell in love with Joe, Mexican correspondent for Tass, ardent Communist on week days and Orthodox Hebrew with his rich parents on Friday evenings. Her friend Rivera was expelled from the Party for painting...

... qualification required of a tragic figure is that figure s insistence upon achieving the status or position he be­ lieves essential to his human dignity. If we may judge from the characters of Joe Keller, Willy Loman, and Eddie Carbone, Mr. Miller means by a common man not only one who is throneless, but one...

... s girls necessarily dictate the actions in which they take part. The relationship between the hero and the heroine be­ comes highly romanticized. The men in the plays, regardless of their age and experience, are forced to act like adolescents. With Curly, Joe Taylor, Lt. Cable, and Larry...

...Richard L. Watson, Jr. The Private Papers of Senator Vandenburg . Edited by Vandenburg Arthur H. Jr. , with the collaboration of Joe Alex Morris. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company , 1952 . Pp. xxii , 599 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 602 The South...

... of propaganda. From the time of the New Deal, Little Orphan Annie articulated Harold Gray s extreme right-wing opinions, while Ham Fisher, the creator of Joe Palooka, was publicly thanked by Franklin D. 70 The South Atlantic Quarterly Roosevelt for helping to mold American opinion towards Japan before World War...

.... Joe Clay, he say. That s your real name? Joe Clay, he say again. What do the teachers call you? He say, Joe. And what do the children call you? He say, Joe again. Everybody in the world calls you Joe Clay, do they? Yes sir, he answer. Well, that s the first step, I tell him. You...

.... Thus though not guilty of actual sin, she feels guilty by association. Once this guilt has been removed, she may marry Woodcourt. More than any other of Dickens novels, Great Expectations parallels the traditional myth of the Fall. Pip, apparently bom into sin (Mrs. Joe, for example, constantly...

...) these are merely devices to spin out the material avail­ able to the limited omniscience of the storyteller, whose point of view causes the failure of the novel. In The Contenders (1958) Wain brought the controlled point of view to a finer pitch. It is the story of three men Joe Shaw, the dull newspaperman who...

..., Achille. And when Afolabe says, What does the name mean? he replies, I do not know. 5 You have to imagine a culture in which Joe, say, would have a meaning. What does Joe mean? Joe? Joe means Joe! There are cultures that would ask, What is Joe? What is a Joe? What is the meaning of that sound...