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`` The white colonnaded, cedar-roofed Southern mansion is directly traceable via the grey and buff stone of grey-skied England to the golden stucco of one particular part of the blue South, the Palladian orbit stretching out from Vicenza: the old mind of Andrea Palladio still smiles from behind many an old rocking chair on a Southern porch, the deep friezes of his architectonic music rise firm above the shallower freeze in the kitchen, his feeling for light and shade brings a glitter from a tall mint julep, his sense of columns framing the warm velvet night has brought together a million couple of mating lips ''.
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white and Southern
This, of course, was the sort of thing that used to take place in Southern cities -- putting white houses of prostitution with colored girls in colored neighborhoods and carrying them on openly.
As far as the color problem is concerned, there is but one great difference between the Southern white and the Northerner: the Southerner remembers, historically and in his own psyche, a kind of Eden in which he loved black people and they loved him.
Historian John Huddleston estimates the death toll at ten percent of all Northern males 20 – 45 years old, and 30 percent of all Southern white males aged 18 – 40.
Similar viewpoints have been expressed by Stanley Crouch in a New York Daily News piece, Charles Steele, Jr. of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and African-American columnist David Ehrenstein of the LA Times who accused white liberals of flocking to blacks who were " Magic Negros ", a term that refers to a black person with no past who simply appears to assist the mainstream white ( as cultural protagonists / drivers ) agenda.
By law and Southern social convention, household heads were adult, white propertied males, and all white women and all African Americans were thought to require protection and guidance because they lacked the capacity for reason and self-control.
During his early presidency Kaunda was an outspoken supporter of the anti-apartheid movement and opposed white minority rule in Southern Rhodesia.
In the 1920s Mitchell completed a novelette, Ropa Carmagin, about a Southern white girl who loves a biracial man.
The only differences between these flags is that the Australian flag has the Commonwealth Star below the canton, and that on the New Zealand flag, just four stars in the Southern Cross are presented, and they are five-pointed red stars with white borders.
On the other hand, all five stars of the Southern Cross are presented on the Australian flag, and they are white with seven points, except for the additional smaller fifth star in the Southern Cross which has only five points on this flag.
The Southern Poverty Law Center ( SPLC ) is an American nonprofit civil rights organization noted for its legal victories against white supremacist groups ; its legal representation for victims of hate groups ; its monitoring of alleged hate groups, militias and extremist organizations ; and its educational programs that promote tolerance.
In May 1998, three white supremacists were arrested for allegedly planning a nationwide campaign of assassinations and bombings targeting " Morris Dees, an undisclosed federal judge in Illinois, a black radio-show host in Missouri, Dees's Southern Poverty Law Center in Alabama, the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, and the Anti-Defamation League in New York.
This theory must be treated with caution, some scholars hold, as it generally neglects several other factors such as the impact of white encroachment, slave trading and expansion in that area of Southern Africa around the same time.
So-called " Confederate Southern Americans ", defined as white Christian descendents of those resident in the Confederate States of America at the onset of the Civil War ( preferably having Scots or Scots-Irish descent ), are seeking a " natural right to self-determination " by claiming " oppressed minority " status through Neo-Confederate groups such as the League of the South.
But the legend of Cobb as a Southern white Protestant who despised blacks, Catholics and anyone who wasn't like him was fanned by sportswriter Al Stump, his first biographer, whose veracity has been called into question.
By 1875 the conservative white Southern opposition regained control of every state in the South and as he left the White House in March 1877 his policies were being undone.
Supporters of Nordicism and Germanism consider Nordic people ( Scandinavians, Germans, English, Balts and Dutch ) to be superior, shunning those of Southern and Eastern Europe ( who may have darker features and different cultures ), including mostly Jews, Poles, Celts ( Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Basque ), Gypsies, Spanish, Portuguese, Italians, white Latin Americans, Lusophone, white Africans, and Russians, along with anyone whose ethnic heritage is not European.
By the 1980s there appeared fiction written by Southern authors who themselves claimed a redneck or white trash origins, such as Harry Crews, Dorothy Allison, Larry Brown, and Tim McLaurin .. Autobiographies sometimes mention white trash origins.
" Cultural Studies ' Misfit: White Trash Studies ", Mississippi Quarterly 2004 57 ( 3 ): 369-387, traces the emergence of ' white trash studies ' as a scholarly field by placing representative 20th-century popular images of ' white trash ' in their Southern economic and cultural contexts.
white and mansion
Bogart and Bacall moved into a $ 160, 000 ( equal to $ today ) white brick mansion in an exclusive neighborhood in Holmby Hills.
The préfecture is located in the palace built by the intendant of Montauban ( the equivalent of a préfet before the French Revolution ), and is a large elegant 18th century mansion, built of pink bricks and white stone, with a steep roof of blue gray slates, in a style combining northern and southern French styles of architecture.
There are two " official " white oaks serving as state trees, one located on the grounds of the governor's mansion, and the other in a schoolyard in the town of Rochelle.
Dr Rudolph Rau, a Frederick surgeon, bought the land in 1911 and constructed an imposing white mansion with colossal columns, a third-floor ballroom and carriage house.
The town was named for a mansion made of white sandstone, and was incorporated in 1908.
There was the now-razed J. P. Morgan Estate, a large white mansion owned by the Johnson + Johnson family.
* Portions of the movie American Gangster were filmed here, notably the large white mansion on Scarborough Road in Briarcliff.
As president of the Gauley Mountain Coal Company, in 1890, he had company carpenters build a palatial white Victorian mansion on a knoll overlooking the town.
Cries and Whispers takes place in a lavish mansion in the 1800s, filled with red carpets and white statuary.
Two other listed buildings are known to pre-date the fire of 1583: Sweetbriar Hall and the grade-I-listed Churche's Mansion are both timber-framed, " black and white " Elizabethan mansion houses.
Three of the four great white columns that once supported the east gable of the mansion still stand on “ The Hill ” and serve as the unofficial symbols of the university.
The mansion dates back to 1902 and boasts an indoor tennis court and white marble swimming pool, according to a release.
Employee housing, particularly for managers and visiting staff from Xstrata, Casa Grande ; a white brick mansion built for the visit of Queen Elizabeth II ; now used for the annual Casa Grande Ball, and some mine operations.
Sanford had the mansion decorated in pink and white, exclaiming that she " only used the elevator to go upstairs and uses the grand staircase to come down to ' make an entrance '.
Their palatial white Victorian mansion was built by Gauley Mountain Coal Company carpenters, on a knoll in the middle of town.
In 1889, while he was president of the Gauley Mountain Coal Company, Page had a palatial white Victorian mansion built by company carpenters on a knoll in the middle of town.
In 1905, lumber and railroad baron William Zuber built a large white columned frame mansion as a wedding present for his new bride on property that fronts Flat Shoals.
The park is centered around the Wesley house, a two story mansion virtually surrounded by white columns and verandas.
Among these, he was head of Gauley Mountain Coal Company, whose carpenters he had build a palatial white mansion on a hilltop in the center of town, where he lived with his wife Emma Gilham Page and their four children.
" He returned to his white marble, two-story mansion overlooking a golf course in Metairie.
) and much of his other accessories, and much of his own mansion home, were also decked out in white.
He started, in 1815, by acquiring the mansion Quinta da Ermida, a beautiful place near Ílhavo town and by the Aveiro estuary, in a region rich in the essential manufacturing elements of porcelain and glass, such as fuels, clay, white and thin sands and crystallized pebbles.
The area was considered one of Louisville's most fashionable in its early years with many affluent white families building elegant mansion homes on Walnut, Chestnut Street, and Jefferson Streets, while working class blacks and whites lived in shotgun houses on adjacent streets.
Various vampires, monsters, gnomes, werewolves, and dark magicians from all over the world gather to the mansion with the intention of awakening the Snake so that it will devour the entire world ( although a small minority of them, derisively called " Dovists ," believe that the Snake is merely " a husk of doves ," and when it awakens it will burst open, releasing thousands of lace white doves.
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