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Blood Done Sign My Name (review)

Blood Done Sign My Name (review) SC 10.4-Books 10/28/04 8:14 AM Page 86 books Blood Done Sign My Name By Timothy B. Tyson Crown Publishers, 2004 355 pp. Cloth $24.00 Reviewed by Fred Hobson, Lineberger Professor in the Humanities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author, most recently, of The Silencing of Emily Mullen and Other Essays (forthcoming). Timothy Tyson’s book about racial conflict in North Carolina is, in fact, a couple of things—both the account of a racially motivated killing in Oxford, NC, in 1970 and the story of one family’s, and one young man’s, coming to terms with race. The book is not, except in the broadest definition of that term, a racial con- version narrative, that genre given life by white southerners from Lillian Smith to Willie Morris and Will Campbell and beyond. Although Tyson confesses to hav- ing been, as a boy, “infected with white supremacy,” his was really a pretty mild form of the disease. And he got over it, at least its worst manifestations, more quickly than did most other white racial sinners. A professor of African American studies at the University of Wisconsin, Tyson grew up in the 1960s and 1970s in a series http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

Blood Done Sign My Name (review)

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Southern Cultures , Volume 10 (4) – Nov 18, 2004
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SC 10.4-Books 10/28/04 8:14 AM Page 86 books Blood Done Sign My Name By Timothy B. Tyson Crown Publishers, 2004 355 pp. Cloth $24.00 Reviewed by Fred Hobson, Lineberger Professor in the Humanities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author, most recently, of The Silencing of Emily Mullen and Other Essays (forthcoming). Timothy Tyson’s book about racial conflict in North Carolina is, in fact, a couple of things—both the account of a racially motivated killing in Oxford, NC, in 1970 and the story of one family’s, and one young man’s, coming to terms with race. The book is not, except in the broadest definition of that term, a racial con- version narrative, that genre given life by white southerners from Lillian Smith to Willie Morris and Will Campbell and beyond. Although Tyson confesses to hav- ing been, as a boy, “infected with white supremacy,” his was really a pretty mild form of the disease. And he got over it, at least its worst manifestations, more quickly than did most other white racial sinners. A professor of African American studies at the University of Wisconsin, Tyson grew up in the 1960s and 1970s in a series

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Published: Nov 18, 2004

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