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In Contemporary Southern Identity Rebecca Bridges Watts explores the implications of four public controversies about Southern identity-debates about the Confederate flag in South Carolina, the gender integration of the Virginia Military Institute, the display of public art in Richmond, and Trent Lot...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Watts, Rebecca Bridges, 1973-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2008.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Group identity > Southern States.
Identité collective > États-Unis (Sud)
HISTORY > State & Local.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Civilization.
Group identity.
Southern States > Civilization > 20th century.
États-Unis (Sud) > Civilisation > 20e siècle.
Southern States.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: looking toward a new rhetoric of southern identity
  • Uniforms, walls, and doors: social mystery and gender integration at the Virginia Military Institute
  • When Richmond gained perspective by incongruity: Old South tradition and New South change in the confederate capitol
  • Stories of the war: the confederate flag in South Carolina
  • Senator Trent Lott: southern sinner, scapegoat, and sacrifice
  • Conclusion: dialectical rhetoric as the new rhetoric of southern identity
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.

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