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Manners and Southern History /

"The concept of southern manners may evoke images of debutantes being introduced to provincial society or it might conjure thoughts of the humiliating behavior white supremacists expected of African Americans under Jim Crow. The essays in Manners and Southern History analyze these topics and mo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Ownby, Ted
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2007.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Southern ladies and she-rebels; or, femininity in the foxhole :
  • Changing definitions of womanhood in the Confederate South
  • The etiquette of race relations in the Jim Crow South
  • Percent moonshine and fifty percent moonshine : social life and college youth culture in Alabama, 1913-1933
  • Scepter and masque : debutante rituals in Mardi Gras New Orleans
  • What's sex got to do with it? antimiscegenation law and Southern white rhetoric
  • Civilities and civil rights in Mississippi
  • Remarks
  • Taking manners seriously.