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The myth of southern exceptionalism /

"More than one-third of the population of the United States now lives in the South, a region where politics, race relations, and the economy have changed dramatically since World War II. Yet historians and journalists continue to disagree over whether the modern South is dominating, deviating f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lassiter, Matthew D., 1970- (Editor ), Crespino, Joseph (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • De jure/de facto segregation: the long shadow of a national myth / Matthew D. Lassiter
  • Hidden in plain sight: the civil rights movement outside the South / Jeanne Theoharis
  • Blinded by a "barbaric" South: prison horrors, inmate abuse, and the ironic history of American penal reform / Heather Ann Thompson
  • Mississippi as metaphor: civil rights, the South, and the nation in the historical imagination / Joseph Crespino
  • Black as folk: the southern civil rights movement and the folk music revival / Grace Elizabeth Hale
  • Red necks, white sheets, and blue states: the persistence of regionalism in the politics of Hollywood / Allison Graham
  • A nation in motion: Norfolk, the Pentagon, and the nationalization of the metropolitan South, 1941-1953 / James T. Sparrow
  • The Cold War at the grassroots: militarization and modernization in South Carolina / Kari Frederickson
  • African-American suburbanization and regionalism in the modern South / Andrew Wiese
  • Latin American immigration and the new multiethnic South / Mary E. Odem
  • Into the political thicket: reapportionment and the rise of suburban power / Douglas Smith
  • Beyond the Southern Cross: the national origins of the Religious Right / Kevin M. Kruse
  • Neo-Confederacy versus the New Deal: the regional utopia of the modern American Right / Nancy MacLean.