Format:
Online-Ressource (526 p.)
Edition:
15th ed
ISBN:
9780807832127
Series Statement:
Caravan Book
Content:
Intentionally plural, Southern Cultures , the journal of the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 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 15 years, bringing together some of the most memorable and engaging essays as well as some of those most requested for use in courses. Contributors include C. Vann Woodward, Drew Gilpin Faust, Charles Reagan Wilson, Catherine Bishir, John Shelton Reed, and Tim T
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Description based upon print version of record
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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)
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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)
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Colliding Cultures: Peoples and powers intersect, forging and reshaping the South and its southernersColumbus 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)
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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)
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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;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780807886465
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780807858806
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Southern Cultures : The Fifteenth Anniversary Reader
Language:
English
Keywords:
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