Heart of Dixie
| Nickname of Alabama, USA. |
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Narrator Guest reaches deep into the heart of Dixie and comes up with voices steeped both in the accents and the cadences of Southern speech: from cousin Peach's "tinny, puny, scrawny" whine to the primly brittle syllables of Comfort's ex-best friend, Declaration. In this excellent book, Mel Watkins has given us not only Stepin Fetchit's story from films like Old Kentucky, Wild Horses, Judge Priest, The Steam Boat Round the Bend, Heart of Dixie, The Ghost Talks, but also the history of blacks in the motion picture industry up until Stepin Fetchit's death in 1985. Few in the movement believed any type of movement could start in the heart of Dixie and the lack of clear planning "created more confusion than solidarity" as group rivalries and leadership issues indicated that the "road itself remained long and hard. |
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