Myth of Southern Exceptionalism

Name: Myth of Southern Exceptionalism
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ISBN: 9780195384758

ISBN-10: 019538475X

ISBN-13: 9780195384758

Edition: 2009

Authors: Matthew D. Lassiter, Joseph Crespino

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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 from, or converging with the rest of the nation. Has the time come to declare the end of southern history? And how do the stories of American history change if the South is no longer seen as a region apart--as the conservative counterpoint to a liberal national ideal? The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism challenges the idea of southern distinctiveness in order to offer a new way of thinking about modern…

Book details

List price: $43.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/19/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.10" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Contributors


Introduction: The End of Southern History




The Northern Mystique



De Jure/De Facto Segregation: The Long Shadow of a National Myth




Hidden in Plain Sight: The Civil Rights Movement outside the South




Blinded by a "Barbaric" South: Prison Horrors, Inmate Abuse, and the Ironic History of American Penal Reform




Imagining the South



Mississippi as Metaphor: Civil Rights, the South, and the Nation in the Historical Imagination




Black as Folk: The Southern Civil Rights Movement and the Folk Music Revival




Red Necks, White Sheets, and Blue States: The Persistence of Regionalism in the Politics of Hollywood




Border Crossings



A Nation in Motion: Norfolk, the Pentagon, and the Nationalization of the Metropolitan South, 1941-1953




The Cold War at the Grassroots: Militarization and Modernization in South Carolina




African-American Suburbanization and Regionalism in the Modern South




Latin American Immigration and the New Multiethnic South




Political Realignment



Into the Political Thicket: Reapportionment and the Rise of Suburban Power




Beyond the Southern Cross: The National Origins of the Religious Right




Neo-Confederacy versus the New Deal: The Regional Utopia of the Modern American Right



Index