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Author: Ralph McGill
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780820314433
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author, former editor and publisher of the Atlanta Constitution, share his impressions of the South and its recent changes
Author: Paul D. Escott
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780807842935
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays offer newcomers to the region information on Southern culture and history, and advice on adjusting to life in the contemporary South
Author: John B. Boles
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2014-10-17
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0813157862
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis revealing interpretation of the black experience in the South emphasizes the evolution of slavery over time and the emergence of a rich, hybrid African American culture. From the incisive discussion on the origins of slavery in the Chesapeake colonies, John Boles embarks on an interpretation of a vast body of demographic, anthropological, and comparative scholarship to explore the character of black bondage in the American South. On such diverse issues as black population growth, the strength of the slave family, the efficiency and profitability of slavery, the diet and health care of bondsmen, the maturation of slave culture, the varieties of slave resistance, and the participation of blacks in the Civil War, Black Southerners provides a balanced and judicious treatment.
Author: Paul D. Escott
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2016-08-01
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 1469621444
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe South often seems like a foreign country to newcomers from other parts of the United States. And for people from other countries, Southern customs and lifestyle can be even more bewildering. For anyone who has ever wondered why the style of conducting busines in the South is different or why some Southerners are still fighting the Civil War, this book will be a valuable guide. The informative and entertaining essays will help new Southerners understand and appreciate the region and its people, and they will also serve as a refresher course on the South for those who are comfortably settled in. Each of the essays adopts a different perspective to suggest just how the South is different from other American regions. In turn, they examine the special meaning of history for Southerners, the boundaries of the South as a geographical and as an imaginary region, the rhetoric and the reality of Southern race relations, the South's change from a rural to a metropolitan culture, the myth of the Southern belle and the reality of Southern women's lives, the political metamorphosis that turned the Solid South into the Solid Republican South, and the recent transformation of the poorest region in the country into an economic wonder called the Sunbelt. Readers will learn that when Southerners ask strangers what church they attend, the intent is not to pry but to be friendly. They will also discover that "where the kudzu grows" is one of the best ways to define where the South is located. The essays offer the insights of both shcolarship and experience, for the contributors -- most of them originally non-Southerners -- learned about this region by living in it as well as studying it. The contributors are Julia Kirk Blackwelder, Paul D. Escott, David R. Goldfield, Nell Irvin Painter, John Shelton Reed, and Thomas E. Terrill.
Author: Christopher A. Cooper
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2017-02-01
Total Pages: 149
ISBN-13: 1469631067
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: Charles Reagan Wilson
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 276
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 1: Religion
Author: K. Stephen Prince
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 1469614189
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, 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. 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.
Author: R. Gordon Thornton
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Published: 2008-12-05
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781589806733
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe definitive primer on Southern nationalism. The South has a right to nationhood, separate from the rest of the United States.This book explores how to preserve the social, religious, political, and cultural traditions of the Southern people.
Author: Alyssa Rosenheck
Publisher: Abrams
Published: 2020-09-22
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 1647001757
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA vibrantly illustrated exploration of the creative, inclusive, and inspiring movement happening in today’s Southern interior design The American South is a place steeped in history and tradition. We think of sweet tea, thick drawls, and even thicker summer air. It is also a place with a fraught history, complicated social norms, and dated perspectives. Yet among the makers and artists of the South, there is a powerful movement afoot. Alyssa Rosenheck shines a much-needed spotlight on a burgeoning community of people who are taking what’s beloved, inherent, and honored in the South and making it their own. The New Southern Style tours more than 30 homes and includes interviews with the designers, artists, and creative entrepreneurs who are reinventing Southern design and culture. This beautifully illustrated book is sure to inspire the home and soul.
Author: Tracy Thompson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2014-03-18
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1439158479
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThompson, a Georgia native, asserts that the South has drawn on its oldest tradition: an ability to adapt and transform itself. She spent years traveling through the region and discovered a South both amazingly similar and radically different from the land she knew as a child. The new South is ahead of others in absorbing waves of Latino immigrants, in rediscovering its agrarian traditions, in seeking racial reconciliation, and in reinventing what it means to have roots in an increasingly rootless global culture.
