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Article: The Chinaberry Trees in Niggertown.(Poem)
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- Southern Cultures
- Article date:
- June 22, 2001
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2001 University of North Carolina Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Editor's note: In the 1920s well-to-do New Yorkers enjoyed "slumming" in Harlem, where they could hear the latest music and be protected by the hue of their skin. Andrew Hudgins uses a quote from a letter Eudora Welty wrote to Katherine Ann Porter in 1941 ("and oh, the chinaberry trees in niggertown!") to create a southern version of slumming in the '40s, showing that things had not changed a lot in two decades. The subtle yet significant distance between the speaker of this persona poem and its author asks at the beginning of the 21st-century whether much has changed since the '40s.
Under the flowering chinaberry
we parked and closed our eyes
to the ...
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... ... with Col. John Nelson of Carteret County, who either gave or sold him the land. The property had a magnificent grove of Chinaberry trees, thus the name China Grove. Today, the restored mansion includes five acres. When Sparrow built the house, there were ...
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