10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UPPITINESS»
Discover the use of
uppitiness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
uppitiness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Racism and Sexual Oppression in Anglo-America: A Genealogy
White people didn't need the excuse of a rape charge to condemn a black man or
woman who got “uppity.” “Uppitiness” in and of itself was good enough to serve
as the stated reason for killing an African American. Uppitiness was apt to be ...
2
The Making of a Southerner
Could not men recount a hundred tales with slight variations of Negroes "
becoming very insolent," of "uppitiness," "sassiness," molestation of whites, all
intolerable beyond words to former owners of slaves? Was it not said that ladies
on the ...
Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin, 1992
Gradually I realized that, with what many people saw as my eccentricities and
uppitiness, I didn't belong. But if I don't belong, then my intellectual and creative
urges, the causes of my uppitiness, don't belong. I began to notice that faculty ...
4
The Middlemost and the Milltowns: Bourgeois Culture and ...
Donations to a range of selected causes demonstrated a proper degree of duty;
too small a contribution denoted meanness or an anemic sense of responsibility
or financial difficulties; too large a contribution signified a certain uppitiness, a bid
...
5
The Ku Klux Klan in the City, 1915-1930
The bolshevik menace was, of course, never clearly defined; but it obviously
included trade unionism as well as Negro “uppitiness.” The Klan helped defeat
the efforts of the C.I.O. to organize southern textile workers, and it warned
Negroes to ...
6
Hard Times Cotton Mill Girls: Personal Histories of ...
My mother's family took pride in being house servants and the Cannons were
field hands, so that whole slave tradition carried over, and still does to this day —
the part of the uppitiness and her marrying beneath herself when she married ...
Victoria Morris Byerly, 1986
—Richmond Times Dispatch (Virginia) “A wickedly pleasant read with a likable,
disgruntled heroine and delightfully scathing pokes at domestic uppitiness.
Weiner takes us among the mansions and Pilates mats . . . she delves into the
twists of ...
8
Finding Martha's Place: My Journey Through Sin, Salvation, ...
That uppitiness was keeping me stuck in harmful ways. Step low, Martha, the
voice of love was saying, so that the greatness that comes to your life isn't
summoned from inside of you. You're more capable than you know, and when
the season ...
9
Auschwitz and Afterimages: Abjection, Witnessing and ...
From which comes the state of perpetual swaggering, of compensatory
uppitiness, the arrogance, the incredible cheek, the head-spinning conceit, the
vociferous effrontery, which is so disgusting and repellant.6 This kind of writing
actively ...
10
Stains on My Name, War in My Veins: Guyana and the Politics ...
Moreover, their reaction to this "insult" became a gloss on their more general
reaction to what they labeled "Arya Samaj uppitiness." As for Arya Samaj
informants, they asserted that the wedding was "spoiled" by jealous, mannerless
Sanatan ...
Brackette F. Williams, 1991
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UPPITINESS»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
uppitiness is used in the context of the following news items.
Restaurant review: We take a bite from Arthur Street Café
But still, nobody here likes anybody to get too uppity. We like our people to be good craic, modest, soul of the party and all. But the first sign of uppitiness and ... «Belfast Telegraph, Jul 15»
Swing into fitness and fun with dance classes
"There's no uppitiness or anything like that, that you might expect," said Wills, who now participates in ballroom dancing competitions. "I've made a lot of new ... «The Courier-Journal, Jul 15»
Poldark, review: Revolution is in the air as women fling mud in the …
are starting to get all uppity. And hurrah for Keren Smith, Verity Poldark, Elizabeth Chynoweth and Demelza Carne for their uppitiness, flinging mud in the eye of ... «The Independent, Apr 15»
The Movie That Inspired This Season's Look: Jaws
... it's the reconciliation of middle-American virtue and countercultural uppitiness after a decade's worth of sparring. Audiences in 1975 may have registered this ... «GQ Magazine, Mar 15»
I had some trees that needed to come down so I hired horse loggers …
“I like their uppitiness,” he says. “They have a lot of enthusiasm.” I tell him I've never understood why any horse would do what any person told him to do. “Horses ... «MinnPost, Mar 15»
Ron Fournier In Excelsis: Advice For The President And Tonight's …
What was the reaction of conservatives and Republicans, the victims of the president's uppitiness and the objects of Ron Fournier's tender mercies? They said ... «Esquire, Jan 15»
Review: 'Selma' Eats Spielberg's Lunch
... and governor George Wallace would be under pressure from their hard-line racist constituents to not look weak in the face of mass uppitiness. AND that they'd ... «Uproxx, Jan 15»
South Carolina Exit Poll Seeks Accurate Measurement Of Black …
South Carolina Exit Poll Seeks Accurate Measurement Of Black Uppitiness. Share0 Tweet0 Share0. by Doktor Zoom. Nov 06 5:20 pm 2014. Everybody has a ... «Wonkette, Nov 14»
US flags China as a maritime outlaw
... PRC to guard against collisions of naval vessels, largely on the novel grounds that it would encourage what might be termed "excessive Chinese uppitiness":. «Asia Times Online, Aug 14»
The Hundred-Foot Journey
Naturellement, he meets immediate resistance from the proprietor, Madame Mallory, played with appropriate uppitiness and Pythonesque French accent by ... «Sky Movies, Aug 14»
