Up South in the Ozarks: Dispatches from the Margins Blevins Brooks
Up South in the Ozarks: Dispatches from the Margins Blevins Brooks The Ozarks is a place that defies easy categorization. For generations Ozarkers have been more likely than most other Americans to…
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Up South in the Ozarks: Dispatches from the Margins Blevins Brooks
The Ozarks is a place that defies easy categorization. For generations Ozarkers have been more likely than most other Americans to live near or below the poverty line--a situation that has often subjected them to unflattering stereotypes. Sprawling across much of Missouri and Arkansas and smaller parts of Oklahoma and Kansas, it is caught on the margins of America's larger cultural regions: part southern, part midwestern, and maybe even a little bit western.
He has been in the vanguard of a new and vibrant Ozarks Studies movement that has worked to refract the stories of Ozarkers through a more realistic and less exotic lens. In short, the Ozarks has been a marginal place populated by marginalized people.Historian Brooks Blevins has spent his life studying and writing about the people of his native regions--the South and the Ozarks. In Up South in the Ozarks: Dispatches from