The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism write by Matthew D. Lassiter. This book was released on 2010. The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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 scholars and journalists continue to disagree over whether the modern South is dominating, deviating from, or converging with the rest of the nation. This collection asks how the stories of American history chance if the South is no longer seen as a region apart--as the conservative exception to a liberal nation."--Back cover.
The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism
The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism write by Matthew D. Lassiter. This book was released on 2009. The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The End of Southern Exceptionalism
The End of Southern Exceptionalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The End of Southern Exceptionalism write by Byron E. Shafer. This book was released on 2009-03-31. The End of Southern Exceptionalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The transformation of Southern politics after World War II changed the political life not just of this distinctive region, but of the entire nation. Until now, the critical shift in Southern political allegiance from Democratic to Republican has been explained, by scholars and journalists, as a white backlash to the civil rights revolution. In this myth-shattering book, Byron Shafer and Richard Johnston refute that view, one stretching all the way back to V. O. Key in his classic book Southern Politics. The true story is instead one of dramatic class reversal, beginning in the 1950s and pulling everything else in its wake. Where once the poor voted Republican and the rich Democrat, that pattern reversed, as economic development became the engine of Republican gains. Racial desegregation, never far from the heart of the story, often applied the brakes to these gains rather than fueling them. A book that is bound to shake up the study of Southern politics, this will also become required reading for pundits and political strategists, for all those who argue over what it takes to carry the South.
The End of Southern Exceptionalism
The End of Southern Exceptionalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The End of Southern Exceptionalism write by Byron E Shafer. This book was released on 2006. The End of Southern Exceptionalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Until now, the critical shift in Southern political allegiance from Democratic to Republican has been explained, by scholars and journalists, as a white backlash to the civil rights revolution. In this myth-shattering book, Byron Shafer and Richard Johnston refute that view, one stretching all the way back to V. O. Key in his classic book Southern Politics. The true story is instead one of dramatic class reversal, beginning in the 1950s and pulling everything else in its wake.
Confederate Exceptionalism
Confederate Exceptionalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Confederate Exceptionalism write by Nicole Maurantonio. This book was released on 2022-09-30. Confederate Exceptionalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Along with Confederate flags, the men and women who recently gathered before the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts carried signs proclaiming “Heritage Not Hate.” Theirs, they said, was an “open and visible protest against those who attacked us, ours flags, our ancestors, or our Heritage.” How, Nicole Maurantonio wondered, did “not hate” square with a “heritage” grounded in slavery? How do so-called neo-Confederates distance themselves from the actions and beliefs of white supremacists while clinging to the very symbols and narratives that tether the Confederacy to the history of racism and oppression in America? The answer, Maurantonio discovers, is bound up in the myth of Confederate exceptionalism—a myth whose components, proponents, and meaning this timely and provocative book explores. The narrative of Confederate exceptionalism, in this analysis, updates two uniquely American mythologies—the Lost Cause and American exceptionalism—blending their elements with discourses of racial neoliberalism to create a seeming separation between the Confederacy and racist systems. Incorporating several methods and drawing from a range of sources—including ethnographic observations, interviews, and archival documents—Maurantonio examines the various people, objects, and rituals that contribute to this cultural balancing act. Her investigation takes in “official” modes of remembering the Confederacy, such as the monuments and building names that drive the discussion today, but it also pays attention to the more mundane and often subtle ways in which the Confederacy is recalled. Linking the different modes of commemoration, her work bridges the distance that believers in Confederate exceptionalism maintain; while situated in history from the Civil War through the civil rights era, the book brings much-needed clarity to the constitution, persistence, and significance of this divisive myth in the context of our time.
