The Indicted South : Public Criticism, Southern Inferiority, and the Politics of Whiteness /

"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-...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Maxwell, Angie, 1978- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2014]
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social conditions.
Regionalism.
Race relations.
Public opinion.
Politics and government.
Political culture.
National characteristics, American.
Inferiority complex.
Group identity.
Civilization.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Complexe d'inferiorite.
Identite collective > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
Regionalisme > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
Opinion publique > États-Unis > Histoire.
Group identity > Southern States > History.
Regionalism > Southern States > History.
Public opinion > United States > History.
Political culture > Southern States > History.
United States.
Southern States.
États-Unis (Sud) > Conditions sociales.
États-Unis (Sud) > Relations raciales > Histoire.
États-Unis (Sud) > Civilisation.
Southern States > Social conditions.
Southern States > Race relations > History.
Southern States > Politics and government.
Southern States > Civilization.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the anatomy of inferiority
  • The triptych of the twenties : Bryan, Darrow, and Mencken and what they meant to the white South
  • Tennessee vs. civilization : Scopes takes on a southern accent
  • Reactionary fundamentalism : the founding of William Jennings Bryan College
  • Fugitives captured : the wasteland of southern identity
  • A knock at midnight : the Agrarian plea for the South
  • The not so new criticism : reconfigured, yet unregenerate
  • Black, white, gray, and brown : the Old Dominion confronts integration
  • Byrd watching : the South on the national stage
  • Excursion into fantasy : the doctrine of interposition
  • Epilogue : the politics of inferiority : conservatism, creationism, and the culture wars.

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