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.
>>>
>>
>