Yipes! The idea of someone claiming a state to have the best Blacks in all
the south sounds like something out of a nineteenth-century novel! Tell you
what I'll do. I'll see if I can dig up the article in my local repository. I
will send along the citation and maybe bring a copy to the SHA.
Her Plantation Household book did emphasize gender solidarity over race and
power inequities. I suppose that does open the door to some of the stuff she
seems to be saying now. I got the impression she was actively interested in
the ideas and goals of the "movement." My inside contact told me that they
like to play up the Southern hospitality thing as an echo of those lost
gracious days. Why am I reminded of Tom Lehrer's "I Wanna to Go Back to
Dixie?" I knew we set our clocks back in the fall but this is ridiculous!
-----Original Message-----
From: David Babson <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 6:12 PM
Subject: Re: History vs Anthropology


>You can see something of that transition in E-F Genovese's book (ten years
>ago?) "The Plantation Household."  She emphasizes the gender connection
>between disenfranchised White/Euro-American women and enslaved
>African-American women, which tends to lessen in importance the great
>class/status difference between these groups.  Beginning of a slippery
>slope?  Still, is she actively participating, or is her work being
>appropriated by the Neo-Confederates?  I remember holding forth about the
>culture of African Americans at a meeting of the South Carolina
>Archaeological Association, and getting the reaction, from an couple of
>South Carolina patriots at my table, that South Carolina had had the best
>African-Americans in the whole South.  From the language they used, their
>pride was more in the state possessing these people, not in their
>accomplishments, and that was not what I had said, or had thought I was
>saying.  What should you do, in such a situation?
>
>David Babson.
>
>
>
>
>At 11:43 PM 10/29/99 -0400, you wrote:
>>Sorry--it is so. I saw an interview with EF Genovese in a mag called
>>something the The New Confederate, or some such thing. Anyway, it was full
>>of ads for "Heritage Not Hate" and other South-will-rise-again items. She
>>was lamenting some of the great qualities lost with the old south and
other
>>Limbaugh-esque-isms. I though the whole thing was a bit off the mark vis a
>>vis the Genoveses' academic reputations.  So I asked the wife of a grad
>>student of theirs that I knew and some other faculty members. They
confirmed
>>the whole thing and made it seem like I was the last to know. Bye bye
Karl,
>>Hello Pat! Will this be a trend in Hist Arch?
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: David Babson <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
>>Date: Friday, October 29, 1999 11:37 PM
>>Subject: Re: History vs Anthropology
>>
>>
>>>Say it ain't so!  Genovese lying down with Buchanan is a millenial sign,
>>>Hannah Arent (sp.?) notwithstanding.  Where's the lamb with seven heads
>>>when you need him?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>At 04:34 PM 10/19/99 -0400, you wrote:
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: mep1 <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>Date: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 3:38 PM
>>>>Subject: Re: History vs Anthropology
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and her husband, Eugene. She is heavily
influenced
>>by
>>>>feminist theory and her husband is a Marxist!
>>>>
>>>>WAS a Marxist. Now they are the darllings of the new right and the
>>>>"neo-confederacy" movemnent. In recent years Genovese has been is
>>academe's
>>>>biggest Pat Buchanan booster.
>>>>
>>>
>>
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