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Southern Cultures: The Fifteenth Anniversary Reader
Author : Harry L. Watson
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,69 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807858806
Southern Cultures: The Fifteenth Anniversary Reader
Author : John J. Beck
Publisher :
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 30,66 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN :
From the very beginning the South was different. The source and significance of this difference has been debated and discussed for over 200 years. In recent decades, the demise of the South as a regional culture has frequently been predicted, although now some scholars and journalists are maintaining that it is proving to be remarkably resilient and is actually having an ever greater influence on the broader American culture. Southern Culture examines the origins and evolution of the region's culture and focuses on six key patterns that have defined it: agrarianism, class relations, race relations, gender and family traditions, evangelical Christianity, and political traditions. Southern Culture also explores the products of the culture with major sections on dialect, painting, architecture, pottery, music, literature, and icons and myths. It concludes with essays by each of the authors in which they reflect on where Southern culture is headed. Professors, to see an annotated list of helpful links to accompany Southern Culture, click here "Three community college instructors combine their long experience in teaching English, history, and sociology in North Carolina (Vance-Granville Community College) to provide an interdisciplinary introductory text well worth adoption. Beck, Frandsen, and Randall meet well the challenge of merging humanities and social science approaches to regional studies by examining six focal areas: race, class, politics, family, religion, and agrarianism. ... Highly recommended." - Choice Magazine ". . . a scholarly resource that also is fun to read." -- Durham Herald Sun
Author : Charles Reagan Wilson
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 11,23 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN :
New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 1: Religion
Author : Paul Harvey
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 21,53 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780807846346
Together, and separately, black and white Baptists created different but intertwined cultures that profoundly shaped the South. Adopting a biracial and bicultural focus, Paul Harvey works to redefine southern religious history, and by extension southern c
Author : John Shelton Reed
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,50 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826208866
Still the South.
Author : Richard H. King
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 46,11 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0814746837
The contemporary American South is a region of economic expansion, political sophistication, and, particularly, cultural ferment. Its literature is well-known and celebrated. But what of the popular cultural forms of expression that have done so much to reflect the curious tensions between the traditional South—white-dominated, rural, religous—and contemporary multicultural forms and discourses? This collection offers a wealth of exciting new perspectives on cultural studies in general and of the particular forms of popular Southern culture—from rock and roll to Cajun music to the impact on the South of tourism and the questions of genre and race in contemporary film-making.
Author : Harry L. Watson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 12,38 MB
Release : 2014-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1469615967
The Winter 2014 Issue brings us duels and Dashboard Poets, eels and faux villages, a beloved television icon, interviews with liberal hero Walter Mondale and conservative activist Jack Kershaw, Civil War battlefi eld monuments, and more. From familiar faces and famous legends to humble commemorations and invented histories, we explore the tensions between preservation and progress that have forged the region as we know it.
Author : Kari Frederickson
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 27,74 MB
Release : 2003-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0807875449
In 1948, a group of conservative white southerners formed the States' Rights Democratic Party, soon nicknamed the "Dixiecrats," and chose Strom Thurmond as their presidential candidate. Thrown on the defensive by federal civil rights initiatives and unprecedented grassroots political activity by African Americans, the Dixiecrats aimed to reclaim conservatives' former preeminent position within the national Democratic Party and upset President Harry Truman's bid for reelection. The Dixiecrats lost the battle in 1948, but, as Kari Frederickson reveals, the political repercussions of their revolt were significant. Frederickson situates the Dixiecrat movement within the tumultuous social and economic milieu of the 1930s and 1940s South, tracing the struggles between conservative and liberal Democrats over the future direction of the region. Enriching her sweeping political narrative with detailed coverage of local activity in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina--the flashpoints of the Dixiecrat campaign--she shows that, even without upsetting Truman in 1948, the Dixiecrats forever altered politics in the South. By severing the traditional southern allegiance to the national Democratic Party in presidential elections, the Dixiecrats helped forge the way for the rise of the Republican Party in the region.
Author : Thomas Cleveland Holt
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 17,98 MB
Release : 2013-06-03
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1469607247
There is no denying that race is a critical issue in understanding the South. However, this concluding volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture challenges previous understandings, revealing the region's rich, ever-expanding diversity and providing new explorations of race relations. In 36 thematic and 29 topical essays, contributors examine such subjects as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, Japanese American incarceration in the South, relations between African Americans and Native Americans, Chinese men adopting Mexican identities, Latino religious practices, and Vietnamese life in the region. Together the essays paint a nuanced portrait of how concepts of race in the South have influenced its history, art, politics, and culture beyond the familiar binary of black and white.
Author : John T. Edge
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 42,71 MB
Release : 2009-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1458721779
The American South embodies a powerful historical and mythical presence, both a complex environmental and geographic landscape and a place of the imagination. Changes in the regions contemporary socioeconomic realities and new developments in scholarship have been incorporated in the conceptualization and approach of The New Encyclopedia of Sout...