Away down South : a history of Southern identity / James C. Cobb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cobb, James C. (James Charles), 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Group identity.

History.

Southern States--Civilization.

Southern States.

Civilization.

Group identity--Southern States--History.

Southern States--Race relations.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

x, 404 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Contents:

Cavalier and Yankee : the origins of Southern "otherness"

The South becomes a cause

The New South and the old cause

The Southern Renaissance and the revolt against the New South creed

Southern writers and "the impossible load of the past"

The mind of the South

The South of guilt and shame

No North, no South? the crisis of Southern white identity

"Successful, optimistic, prosperous, and bland" : telling about the No South

Blackness and Southernness : African Americans look south toward home

Divided by a common past : history and identity in the contemporary South

The South and the politics of identity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-389) and index.

ISBN:

0195089596

OCLC:

60766974

Publisher Number:

9780195089592