Hurtin' Words : Debating Family Problems in the Twentieth-Century South /

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"When Tammy Wynette sang "D-I-V-O-R-C-E," she famously said she "spelled out the hurtin' words" to spare her child the pain of family breakup. In this innovative work, Ted Ownby considers how a wide range of writers, thinkers, activists, and others defined family proble...

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Main Author: Ownby, Ted (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social problems > Public opinion.
Social conditions.
Race relations.
Families > Public opinion.
Families.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
Problemes sociaux > Opinion publique > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Familles > Opinion publique > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Familles > États-Unis (Sud)
Social problems > Public opinion > History > 20th century.
Families > Public opinion > History > 20th century.
Families > Southern States.
Southern States.
États-Unis (Sud) > Relations raciales > Histoire > 20e siecle.
États-Unis (Sud) > Conditions sociales > 20e siecle.
Southern States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Southern States > Social conditions > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Family crises or home remedies : defining the problems among African Americans and whites in the South, 1890s-1930s
  • Yours for the cause of peace and brotherhood, 1930s-1960s
  • The white man's holy institution of matrimony : massive resistance as a movement for family protection, 1950s-1960s
  • The only American community where men call each other "brother" when they meet : redefining brotherhood and sisterhood in the 1960s
  • "Hurtin' words," "free bird," and family values : defining family crises among white Southerners in the 1970s
  • Not a problem people : rejecting family crisis in the 1970s and 1980s.

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