Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture
As the contributors to this volume make clear, the narrative of southern history told at these sites is often complicated by race, influenced by local politics, and shaped by competing memories.
Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice Karen L. Cox ... who repeatedly defied the court order allowing Meredith to register, and the young Kennedy administration, determined to enforce that order.
There, Charles became the rector of St. James Church in Port Gibson, a small town about halfway between Natchez and Vicksburg. Why he left after serving Christ Church for nearly three decades is a mystery, though his marriage to a ...
''A vital and, until now, missing piece to the puzzle of the 'Lost Cause' ideology and its impact on the daily lives of post-Civil War southerners. This is a careful,...
Mediated Images of the South: The Portrayal of Dixie in Popular Culture, edited by Slade, Givens-Carroll, and Narro, seeks to explore and understand the impact of the image of the Southerner within mass communication and popular culture by ...
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.
... I had no business drinking that Grand Marnier but it was too late now. When I saw two Peters spreading pâté on a Carr's wafer, I knew I was 212 L | S A P A T TO N.
North of Dixie brings to light numerous lesser-known images and illuminates the story of the civil rights movement in the American North and West.
Taken collectively, these essays provide a better understanding of the region’s identity, both real and perceived, as well as how southerners grappled with modernity during a decade of uncertainty and economic hardship.
Diet was a four-letter word.