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Author |
: Angie Maxwell |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 324 |
Release |
: 2014-04-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781469611655 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1469611651 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Indicted South by : Angie Maxwell
By the 1920s, the sectional reconciliation that had seemed achievable after Reconstruction was foundering, and the South was increasingly perceived and portrayed as impoverished, uneducated, and backward. In this interdisciplinary study, Angie Maxwell examines and connects three key twentieth-century moments in which the South was exposed to intense public criticism, identifying in white southerners' responses a pattern of defensiveness that shaped the region's political and cultural conservatism. Maxwell exposes the way the perception of regional inferiority confronted all types of southerners, focusing on the 1925 Scopes trial in Dayton, Tennessee, and the birth of the anti-evolution movement; the publication of I'll Take My Stand and the turn to New Criticism by the Southern Agrarians; and Virginia's campaign of Massive Resistance and Interposition in response to the Brown v. Board of Education decision. Tracing the effects of media scrutiny and the ridicule that characterized national discourse in each of these cases, Maxwell reveals the reactionary responses that linked modern southern whiteness with anti-elitism, states' rights, fundamentalism, and majoritarianism.
Author |
: Christopher A. Cooper |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 149 |
Release |
: 2017-02-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781469631066 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1469631067 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Resilience of Southern Identity by : Christopher A. Cooper
The American South has experienced remarkable change over the past half century. Black voter registration has increased, the region's politics have shifted from one-party Democratic to the near-domination of the Republican Party, and in-migration has increased its population manyfold. At the same time, many outward signs of regional distinctiveness have faded--chain restaurants have replaced mom-and-pop diners, and the interstate highway system connects the region to the rest of the country. Given all of these changes, many have argued that southern identity is fading. But here, Christopher A. Cooper and H. Gibbs Knotts show how these changes have allowed for new types of southern identity to emerge. For some, identification with the South has become more about a connection to the region's folkways or to place than about policy or ideology. For others, the contemporary South is all of those things at once--a place where many modern-day southerners navigate the region's confusing and omnipresent history. Regardless of how individuals see the South, this study argues that the region's drastic political, racial, and cultural changes have not lessened the importance of southern identity but have played a key role in keeping regional identification relevant in the twenty-first century.
Author |
: Angie Maxwell |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 561 |
Release |
: 2019 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190265960 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190265965 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Long Southern Strategy by : Angie Maxwell
In The Long Southern Strategy, Angie Maxwell and Todd Shields trace the consequences of the GOP's decision to court white voters in the South. Over time, Republicans adopted racially coded, anti-feminist, and evangelical Christian rhetoric and policies, making its platform more southern and more partisan, and the remodel paid off. This strategy has helped the party reach new voters and secure electoral victories, up to and including the 2016 election. Now, in any Republican primary, the most southern-presenting candidate wins, regardless of whether that identity is real or performed. Using an original and wide-ranging data set of voter opinions, Maxwell and Shields examine what southerners believe and show how Republicans such as Donald Trump stoke support in the South and among southern-identified voters across the nation.
Author |
: John Reeves |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 261 |
Release |
: 2018-07-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781538110409 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1538110407 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Lost Indictment of Robert E. Lee by : John Reeves
History has been kind to Robert E. Lee. Woodrow Wilson believed General Lee was a “model to men who would be morally great.” Douglas Southall Freeman, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his four-volume biography of Lee, described his subject as “one of a small company of great men in whom there is no inconsistency to be explained, no enigma to be solved.” Winston Churchill called him “one of the noblest Americans who ever lived.” Until recently, there was even a stained glass window devoted to Lee's life at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. Immediately after the Civil War, however, many northerners believed Lee should be hanged for treason and war crimes. Americans will be surprised to learn that in June of 1865 Robert E. Lee was indicted for treason by a Norfolk, Virginia grand jury. In his instructions to the grand jury, Judge John C. Underwood described treason as “wholesale murder,” and declared that the instigators of the rebellion had “hands dripping with the blood of slaughtered innocents.” In early 1866, Lee decided against visiting friends while in Washington, D.C. for a congressional hearing, because he was conscious of being perceived as a “monster” by citizens of the nation’s capital. Yet somehow, roughly fifty years after his trip to Washington, Lee had been transformed into a venerable American hero, who was highly regarded by southerners and northerners alike. Almost a century after Appomattox, Dwight D. Eisenhower had Lee’s portrait on the wall of his White House office. The Lost Indictment of Robert E. Lee tells the story of the forgotten legal and moral case that was made against the Confederate general after the Civil War. The actual indictment went missing for 72 years. Over the past 150 years, the indictment against Lee after the war has both literally and figuratively disappeared from our national consciousness. In this book, Civil War historian John Reeves illuminates the incredible turnaround in attitudes towards the defeated general by examining the evolving case against him from 1865 to 1870 and beyond.
Author |
: John Hayes |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 251 |
Release |
: 2017-09-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781469635330 |
ISBN-13 |
: 146963533X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hard, Hard Religion by : John Hayes
In his captivating study of faith and class, John Hayes examines the ways folk religion in the early twentieth century allowed the South's poor--both white and black--to listen, borrow, and learn from each other about what it meant to live as Christians in a world of severe struggle. Beneath the well-documented religious forms of the New South, people caught in the region's poverty crafted a distinct folk Christianity that spoke from the margins of capitalist development, giving voice to modern phenomena like alienation and disenchantment. Through haunting songs of death, mystical tales of conversion, grassroots sacramental displays, and an ethic of neighborliness, impoverished folk Christians looked for the sacred in their midst and affirmed the value of this life in this world. From Tom Watson and W. E. B. Du Bois over a century ago to political commentators today, many have ruminated on how, despite material commonalities, the poor of the South have been perennially divided by racism. Through his excavation of a folk Christianity of the poor, which fused strands of African and European tradition into a new synthesis, John Hayes recovers a historically contingent moment of interracial exchange generated in hardship.
Author |
: Angie Maxwell |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 324 |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781469611648 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1469611643 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Indicted South by : Angie Maxwell
Indicted South: Public Criticism, Southern Inferiority, and the Politics of Whiteness
Author |
: Thomas D. Wilson |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2016 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1469628902 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781469628905 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ashley Cooper Plan by : Thomas D. Wilson
"In 'The Ashley Cooper Plan', Thomas Wilson connects Anthony Ashley Cooper (the First Earl of Shaftesbury) and John Locke's seventeenth-century vision of well-ordered society to the design of cities in the Province of Carolina to current debates about the relationship about climate change, sustainable development, urbanity, and the place of expertise in general. This important work focuses on the ways in which political culture, ideology, and governing structures have shaped political acts and public policy and illuminates one of the fundamental paradoxes of American history: although the Ashley Cooper Plan was a model of rational planning, its utopian qualities were soon undermined by the lure of profits to be had from slaveholding. Wilson argues that the "Gothic" framework of the Carolina "Fundamental Constitutions" was stripped of its original imperative of class reciprocity in the transition to slavery, which reverberates in American politics to this day"--
Author |
: Tara McPherson |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 340 |
Release |
: 2003-03-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0822330407 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780822330400 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reconstructing Dixie by : Tara McPherson
DIVA cultural studies reading of white southern femininity as seen in a range of popular sites including novels, television, and tourist attractions./div
Author |
: Karen Cox |
Publisher |
: LSU Press |
Total Pages |
: 334 |
Release |
: 2018-05-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807169230 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0807169234 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reassessing the 1930s South by : Karen Cox
Much of American popular culture depicts the 1930s South either as home to a population that was intellectually, morally, and physically stunted, or as a romantic, sentimentalized haven untouched by the nation’s financial troubles. Though these images stand as polar opposites, each casts the South as an exceptional region that stood separate from American norms. Reassessing the 1930s South brings together historians, art critics, and literary scholars to provide a new social and cultural history of the Great Depression South that moves beyond common stereotypes of the region. Essays by Steven Knepper, Anthony J. Stanonis, and Bryan A. Giemza delve into the literary culture of the 1930s South and the multiple ways authors such as Sterling Brown, Tennessee Williams, and E. P. O’Donnell represented the region to outsiders. Lisa Dorrill and Robert W. Haynes explore connections between artists and the South in essays on New Deal murals and southern dramatists on Broadway. Rejecting traditional views of southern resistance to modernization, Douglas E. Thompson and Ted Atkinson survey the cultural impacts of technological advancement and industrialization. Emily Senefeld, Scott L. Matthews, Rebecca Sharpless, and Melissa Walker compare public representations of the South in the 1930s to the circumstances of everyday life. Finally, Ella Howard, Nicholas Roland, and Robert Hunt Ferguson examine the ways southern governments and activists shaped racial perceptions and realities in Georgia, Texas, and Tennessee. Reassessing the 1930s South provides an interpretation that focuses on the region’s embrace of technological innovation, promotion of government-sponsored programs of modernization, rejection of the plantation legend of the late nineteenth century, and experimentation with unionism and interracialism. Taken collectively, these essays provide a better understanding of the region’s identity, both real and perceived, as well as how southerners grappled with modernity during a decade of uncertainty and economic hardship.
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Total Pages |
: 1196 |
Release |
: 1906 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCAL:B3503613 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Southern Reporter by :
Includes the decisions of the Supreme Courts of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi, the Appellate Courts of Alabama and, Sept. 1928/Jan. 1929-Jan./Mar. 1941, the Courts of Appeal of Louisiana.