The Resilience of Southern Identity - 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 Resilience of Southern Identity write by Christopher A. Cooper. This book was released on 2017-02-01. The Resilience of Southern Identity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The American South has experienced remarkable change over the past half century. Black voter registration has increased, the region's politics have shifted from one-party Democratic to the near-domination of the Republican Party, and in-migration has increased its population manyfold. At the same time, many outward signs of regional distinctiveness have faded--chain restaurants have replaced mom-and-pop diners, and the interstate highway system connects the region to the rest of the country. Given all of these changes, many have argued that southern identity is fading. But here, Christopher A. Cooper and H. Gibbs Knotts show how these changes have allowed for new types of southern identity to emerge. For some, identification with the South has become more about a connection to the region's folkways or to place than about policy or ideology. For others, the contemporary South is all of those things at once--a place where many modern-day southerners navigate the region's confusing and omnipresent history. Regardless of how individuals see the South, this study argues that the region's drastic political, racial, and cultural changes have not lessened the importance of southern identity but have played a key role in keeping regional identification relevant in the twenty-first century.
Resilience of Southern Identity
Resilience of Southern Identity - 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 Resilience of Southern Identity write by Christopher A. Cooper. This book was released on 2017. Resilience of Southern Identity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Redefining Southern Culture
Redefining Southern Culture - 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 Redefining Southern Culture write by James Charles Cobb. This book was released on 1999. Redefining Southern Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cobb, "surveys the remarkable story of southern identity and its persistence in the face of sweeping changes in the South's economy, society and political structure."--dust jacket.
Insiders, Outsiders
Insiders, Outsiders - 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 Insiders, Outsiders write by Sarah E. Gardner. This book was released on 2021. Insiders, Outsiders available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The essays in Insiders, outsiders tap into the interdisciplinary synergy that has come to characterize Southern studies, exploring current creative tensions between classic themes in Southern history and the new ways to approach them. Region and identity, intellectuals and change, the South as an idea and ideas in the South-these continue to inspire the best new research as showcased in this collection"--
Stories of the South
Stories of the South - 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 Stories of the South write by K. Stephen Prince. This book was released on 2014-04-28. Stories of the South available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, the character of the South, and even its persistence as a distinct region, was an open question. During Reconstruction, the North assumed significant power to redefine the South, imagining a region rebuilt and modeled on northern society. The white South actively resisted these efforts, battling the legal strictures of Reconstruction on the ground. Meanwhile, white southern storytellers worked to recast the South's image, romanticizing the Lost Cause and heralding the birth of a New South. In Stories of the South, K. Stephen Prince argues that this cultural production was as important as political competition and economic striving in turning the South and the nation away from the egalitarian promises of Reconstruction and toward Jim Crow. Examining novels, minstrel songs, travel brochures, illustrations, oratory, and other cultural artifacts produced in the half century following the Civil War, Prince demonstrates the centrality of popular culture to the reconstruction of southern identity, shedding new light on the complicity of the North in the retreat from the possibility of racial democracy.
