IUF 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sharecropping
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Trying to understand another person requires you to break/enter into anothers life: wises question: how did percy live while identifying as 2 conflicting things. Being gay: percy; from greenville mississippi, prominent plantation family, had slaves, before civil war, sharecroppers after the war, lifelong conflict; what does it mean to be a man in thesouth. He did play the part, was a war hero, prominent lawyer. In many ways he didnt; maintained intimate relationships with men o. Different cultures around the world had different perspectives on what could you. Possibly because they believed that being gay was incompatible with ideal of a father, war hero, role model, southern man.