Southern Cultures : The Fifteenth Anniversary Reader.
Title:
Southern Cultures : The Fifteenth Anniversary Reader.
Author:
Watson, Harry L.
ISBN:
9780807886465
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Edition:
15th ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (526 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Front Porch -- A Moveable Mason-Dixon Line: Where is the South? Which South? Where isn't the South? -- Southern Distinctiveness, Yet Again, or, Why America Still Needs the South (6:3) -- Chicago as the Northernmost County of Mississippi (8:1) -- Teaching Gone with the Wind in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (11:3) -- Haiku (4:4) -- Intractable Identity: In an ever-evolving region, potent markers of southern pride and identification remain -- Landmarks of Power: Building a Southern Past, 1885-1915 (Inaugural Issue) -- The Southern Accent-Alive and Well (Inaugural Issue) -- The Banner That Won't Stay Furled (8:1) -- Living with Confederate Symbols (8:1) -- The New Days of Yore: Country music, the blues, Atticus Finch, and southern childhoods aren't what they used to be-and perhaps never really were -- Rednecks, White Socks, and Piña Coladas? Country Music Ain't What It Used to Be . . . And It Really Never Was (5:4) -- "Where Is the Love?" Racial Violence, Racial Healing, and Blues Communities (12:4) -- The Strange Career of Atticus Finch (6:2) -- Rituals of Initiation and Rebellion Adolescent Responses to Segregation in Southern Autobiography (3:2) -- Colliding Cultures: Peoples and powers intersect, forging and reshaping the South and its southerners -- Columbus Meets Pocahontas in the American South (3:1) -- A Sense of Place: Jews, Blacks, and White Gentiles in the American South (3:1) -- Martin Luther King and the Southern Dream of Freedom (11:4) -- Our Lady of Guadeloupe Visits the Confederate Memorial (8:2) -- And the Dead Shall Rise: An Overview (11:4) -- Regional Stereotypes: Kudzu, hogs, rednecks, feuding, and rasslin' have real stories behind them -- Kudzu: A Tale of Two Vines (7:3) -- A Short History of Redneck: The Fashioning of a Southern White Masculine Identity (1:2).
"Where the Sun Set Crimson and the Moon Rose Red": Writing Appalachia and the Kentucky Mountain Feuds (2:3/4) -- The "Tennessee Test of Manhood" Professional Wrestling and Southern Cultural Stereotypes (3:3) -- "How 'bout a Hand for the Hog" The Enduring Nature of the Swine as a Cultural Symbol in the South (1:3) -- Southern Traditions: What interests, guides, and defines southerners is a diverse collection we can only begin to sample here -- Equine Relics of the Civil War (6:1) -- The Most Southern Sport on Earth: NASCAR and the Unions (7:2) -- African American Humor and the South (1:4) -- Sister Act: Sorority Rush as Feminine Performance (5:3) -- The Death of Southern Heroes: Historic Funerals of the South (1:2) -- About the Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
What does "redneck" mean? What's going to happen to the southern accent? What makes black southerners laugh? What is "real" country music? These are the kinds of questions that pop up in this collection of notable essays from Southern Cultures, the journal of the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Intentionally plural, Southern Cultures was founded in 1993 to present all sides of the American South, from sorority sisters to Pocahontas, from kudzu to the blues. This volume collects 27 essays from the journal's first fifteen years, bringing together some of the most memorable and engaging essays as well as some of those most requested for use in courses. A stellar cast of contributors discusses themes of identity, pride, traditions, changes, conflicts, and stereotypes. Topics range from black migrants in Chicago to Mexican immigrants in North Carolina, from Tennessee wrestlers to Martin Luther King, from the Civil War to contemporary debates about the Confederate flag. Funny and serious, historical and contemporary, the collection offers something new for every South-watcher, with fresh perspectives on enduring debates about the people and cultures of America's most complex region. Contributors: Derek H. Alderman, East Carolina University Donna G'Segner Alderman, Greenville, North Carolina S. Jonathan Bass, Samford University Dwight B. Billings, University of Kentucky Catherine W. Bishir, Preservation North Carolina Kathleen M. Blee, University of Pittsburgh Elizabeth Boyd, Vanderbilt University James C. Cobb, University of Georgia Peter A. Coclanis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Joseph Crespino, Emory University Drew Gilpin Faust, Harvard University franklin forts, University of Georgia David Goldfield, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Larry J. Griffin, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Adam Gussow, University of Mississippi Trudier Harris, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Patrick Huber, University of Missouri-Rolla Louis M. Kyriakoudes, University of Southern Mississippi Melton McLaurin, University of North Carolina at Wilmington Michael Montgomery, University of South Carolina Steve Oney, Los Angeles, California Theda Perdue, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Dan Pierce, University of North Carolina at Asheville John Shelton Reed, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Mart Stewart, Western Washington University Thomas A. Tweed, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Timothy B. Tyson, Duke University Anthony Walton, Bowdoin College Harry L. Watson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Charles Reagan Wilson, University of Mississippi C. Vann Woodward (1908-1999).
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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